Unitialized pointer

You haven''t made an attempt to initilise the pointer in any way whatsoever. Do something like

Vertices = new VERTEX;

You should find that memory has been allocated and you can now use the pointer.

Regards,
Mathematix.

it''s not really about that topic, but good discussion about valid/invalid pointers in thread : ''NULL?''
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and now some on-topic...
you should maybe initialize every pointer you declare with :

anytype* pointer = NULL;

it''s not really necessary but it''s good style and makes checking, if a pointer is valid or not much easier (sometimes also makes debugging easier).

or think of the case, that the value that ''pointer'' (pseudo-)randomly gets in the beginning already is a valid pointer... if you got buggy code that doesn''t initialize the pointer but accesses the memory (as in your code above), you''ll most likely get weird results & debugging will maybe be a lot harder than it would be with all invalid pointers set to NULL...

just an advice !

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However, when i try to access this pointer (in the same class .cpp file), its address is not there. Why

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What do you mean when you say "in the same class .cpp file"?

Defining a variable in a header file like that is usually not a good idea. If you include the header file in more than one of your projects .cpp files you''ll get linker errors.

Thanks for the suggestions guys and gals, but i found that it was just one of retarded errors that i always seem to miss. You know, the obvious ones. ]
Sorry everyone.