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(i) Pointer p1 is set to point at a new heap-dynamic variable.
(ii) Pointer p2 is assigned p1’s value.
(iii) The heap dynamic variable pointed to by p1 is explicitly de-allocated, but p2 is not changed by the operation.

This situation leads to which of the following :

(A) p1 becomes a dangling pointer
(B) p2 becomes a dangling pointer
(C) Both p1 and p2 are now dangling pointers
(D) Neither p1 nor p2 is now a dangling pointer
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Dangling pointers arise when an object is deleted or deallocated, without modifying the value of the pointer, so that the pointer still points to the memory location of the de-allocated memory.

Since P2 is pointing the memory location that has been de-allocated .So we can say P2 becomes dangling pointer.
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