Pointers and Reference Types

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DaMaskMan2 0 Newbie Poster

11 Years Ago

What wrong with the following code segment?

    int* birdDog;
    int* germanShortHair;
    birdDog = new int;
    germanShortHair = birdDog;
    *birdDog = 42;
    cout << *birdDog;
    delete birdDog;
    cout << *germanShortHair;

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Ancient Dragon 5,243 Achieved Level 70 Team Colleague Featured Poster · Answer 1 · 2012-11-18T17:46:05+00:00

line 8 points to an address that was deleted in line 7. Once the memory is deleted you can't reference it again.