The compiler has already done all of its work at that time, so you can't blame him. tongue

In general: There might be scenarios where writing an address to pointer is valid. The most basic usage of this is "MyPointer = NULL". That is basically the same. This is one of the unlucky cases where you encounter errors previously done much later - or never at all.

EDIT: @JustSid: He did.


Always learn from history, to be sure you make the same mistakes again...