Thread: Initializing pointers always necessary?

I don't initialize FILE pointers to anything, before they're assigned their value from fopen().

Where you can get into trouble is with stuff like:

Code:

int *pint;

//some other code.
//more code

*pint = 15;

Because you forgot that *pint was never given a valid address.

Making an assignment of a pointer to null, is no help (to me, so far) - the program is still not going to work reliably, until you make the CORRECT assignment. All before you dereference the pointer.