Does new X() return a pointer or not?

[rikki cattermole]

On 07/04/2019 2:34 AM, faissaloo wrote:
> Are objects automatically assumed to be pointers?

It is a reference. Which is a fancy way of saying pointer under the hood.

Just don't do pointer arithmetic with it ;)

Object* means a pointer to a class object reference. Which isn't what 
you were intending.
int* means a pointer to a 4-byte signed integer.

Does that make sense?