Question

I am getting “Unhandled exception at 0x00263ACB in Trees.exe: 0xC0000005: Access violation reading location 0x00000000.” on the first if statement of remove_node function. Can anyone give me a suggestion, I am stumped.

Thanks

Answer 1

It looks like the error could be hidden here:
In both cases you go to the left child and at some point approach a leaf (and try to delete its child which doesn’t exist). Try to replace one of remove_node(num, node_ptr->left); by remove_node(num, node_ptr->right);

Also it’s a good idea to first check whether a node exists.