# hazard pointer

> in a multithreaded system, a pointer kept by each thread indicating which nodes the thread is currently accessing and must not be modified or deallocated by another thread

**Wikidata**: [Q5687677](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5687677)  
**Wikipedia**: [English](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hazard_pointer)  
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