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    <p>In my main class, I have a person object, which, in the person class, contains a pointer to a Strategy object. I'm trying to do this:</p> <pre><code>person.strategyPointer-&gt;getStrategyType() </code></pre> <p>But when I print this out, I get a special number, 3435973836. This probably means my strategyPointer has not been initialized.</p> <p>In my Person class header file, I declare this:</p> <pre><code>Strategy* strategyPointer; </code></pre> <p>And in the Person.cpp file I initialize the pointer like this.</p> <pre><code>Person::Person() : strategyPointer(nullptr) { } </code></pre> <p>If I point the pointer to null, why is the compiler still complaining that I don't have the strategyPointer initialized? Or perhaps since it points to null, it falls out of scope and gets deleted? I actually point the pointer to something when I'm parsing. I do something like this:</p> <pre><code>StrategyType newStrat; newStrat.setStrategyType(strategyType); person.strategyPointer = &amp;newStrat </code></pre> <p>I'm using inheritance, and Strategy is my base class. However, it complains about initialization later on back in my main source file. I have no idea what's going on with this initialization problem. I can't point the pointer to a bogus Strategy object either.</p> <p>EDIT: I have just added a new variable declaration in my Person header file, Strategy newStrategy; I later assign the StrategyType object which I've created into newStrategy, and I point strategyPointer to &amp;newStrategy. This should prevent the StrategyType object that I've created from falling out of scope, right? But in my main.cpp I still get the same value when I try to print out person.stratPointer->getStrategyType(); However, if I print out person.newStrategy.getStrategyType(), I get the value which I want.</p>
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    1. COYou might want to provide more details if you hope to get an answer like what programming language ... ?
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    2. COPost the exact error message. Compilers don't usually complain about uninitialized variables, that's usually a runtime problem.
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    3. CO@EddieB Since he said the source file was named Person.cpp, I've added the c++ tag.
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