Accessing class members on a NULL pointer

Question

I was experimenting with C++ and found the below code as very strange.

class Foo{
public:
    virtual void say_virtual_hi(){
        std::cout << \"Vi         


        

Answer 1

Dereferencing a NULL pointer causes "undefined behaviour", This means that anything could happen - your code may even appear to work correctly. You must not depend on this however - if you run the same code on a different platform (or even possibly on the same platform) it will probably crash.

In your code there is no Foo object, only a pointer which is initalised with the value NULL.