Uninitialized pointers in code

Question

I am learning C++ and I came to know that pointers if left uninitialized could point to random locations in memory and create problems that memory might be used by some othe

Answer 1

If the pointer is not used, the compiler will simply ignore it. Initializing it to NULL is the safe thing to do, imho.

Are you sure your not confusing with a function declaration? It's very common for a function to be declared as

char* do_something(const char* one,const char* two);

In this case, the pointers are used to specify what kind of argument you want to pass.