You're debugging a segmentation fault in a program and find that a pointer is being accessed after it has been freed. What is this type of pointer error called?
- Dangling pointer error
- Invalid pointer error
- Null pointer error
- Out-of-scope pointer error
This type of pointer error is called a "dangling pointer error." It occurs when a pointer is accessed after it has been freed or deallocated, leading to undefined behavior and segmentation faults.
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