When a pointer is created in scope, what happens to the pointed to variable when the pointer goes out of scope?

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The title says it all.

I found an old question that is essentially the same, but I needed a tiny bit further clarification.

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I'd say "nothing" (to answer the title), if it were enough for SO to consider it an answer.

As for your million pointers to characters, whereas the pointers will get popped (though you gotta have quite a stack to hold million pointers) the data they point to will haunt your memories.