This is paranoia based on long experience. After a pointer has been freed, you can no longer use the pointed-to data. The pointer is said to ?dangle?; it doesn?t point at anything useful. If you ?NULL out? or ?zero out? a pointer immediately after freeing it, your program can no longer get in trouble by using that pointer. True, you might go indirect on the null pointer instead, but that?s something your debugger might be able to help you with immediately. Also, there still might be copies of the pointer that refer
to the memory that has been deallocated; that?s the nature of C. Zeroing out pointers after freeing them won?t solve all problems;

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