Unreal Engine 4.x Scripting with C++ Cookbook - Second Edition

How it works...

The preceding code does what is shown in the diagram that follows:

1. The first line creates an int * pointer variable, i, which starts as a dangling pointer referring to a segment of memory that probably won't be valid for your program to reference.
2. In the second step of the diagram, we use a malloc() call to initialize the variable i to point to a segment of memory precisely the size of an int variable, which will be valid for your program to refer to.
3. We then initialize the contents of that memory segment to the value 0 using the command *i = 0;. Refer to the following diagram:

Note the difference between the assignment to ...