Value at non-initiated pointer

[primecodz]

I have a question regarding the value of a newly assigned integer for dynamic memory allocation.

I have a piece of example code that creats a new int and then displays the address location and the value the address is holding. Before running this piece of code for the first time I was curious to see if a null value came out, but this was not the case. 94201 or something came out as the value. Can someone explain why a non-initiated dynamically allocated integer has a random value?

Here is the code:

#include <iostream>

using namespace std;

int main()

{

    int *pointsTo= new int;

    cout << "Address: " << pointsTo << endl;
    cout << "Value: " << *pointsTo << endl;

    delete pointsTo;

    return 0;
}

THanks in advance!!!

-primez

[Lowest0ne]

For the same reason that a regular int would have a garbage value. The OS just gives it to you, it's your job to do something with it.

[primecodz]

Thanks for the reply! Makes sense now.