Pointer Member Variable Initialization in C++ Classes

Question

This is going to sound so basic as to make one think I made zero effort to find the answer myself, but I swear I did search for about 20 minutes and found no answer.

Answer 1

Value will be undefined.

You may have one "ultimate" ctor which will initialize all fields and add "short-cut" ctors with only part of parameters, which will pass these params to ultimate ctor along with default values for the rest of params.