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Pointer Examples

• Pascal: used for dynamic storage management only
  • Explicit dereferencing
  • Dangling pointers and memory leaks are possible

• Ada: a little better than Pascal and Modula-2
  • Implicit dereferencing
  • All pointers are initialized to null
  • Similar dangling pointer and memory leak problems for typical implementations