Question

When I have a code like this :

int* nPtr = 0;
MyClass* myClass = 0;

What compiler really does under the hood. I mean anyway there must be some place in memory to refer.
Does compiler have a special memory block for null pointer to where all they refer ?

Answer 1

I mean anyway there must be some place in memory to refer.

Nope. You can’t dereference a NULL pointer and get an object. There’s no object at memory location 0x0 *.

It’s just a convention that we have this one [invalid] pointer value that we can use to identify a pointer as deliberately not pointing anywhere valid.

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* ^{– or whatever your implementation decides to use for a 0-pointer}