Essential C

Dereferencing a null pointer

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This is an example of dereferencing a NULL pointer, causing undefined behavior. 

int * pointer = NULL;
int value = *pointer; /* Dereferencing happens here */

A NULL pointer is guaranteed by the C standard to compare unequal to any pointer to a valid object, and dereferencing it invokes undefined behavior.

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