Why Function is getting accessed without object in C++?

Question

In the following program.

#include<iostream>

using namespace std;


class Base{


public:
    Base(){
    cout<<"I am Constructor"<<endl;
    }
    void method();


};

void Base::method(){
cout<<"I am method"<<endl;
}

int main()
{

    Base *sc1;
    Base *sc2;
    sc1->method();
    sc2->method();


}

the output I am getting is as follows

I am method
I am method

How can this happen as no object is created?

Answer 1

It is undefined behaviour, so "anything" can happen. It probably runs because you do not access anything (implicitly or explicitly) via the this pointer.

This would be more likely to fail:

struct Foo
{
  int foo() const { return i; } 
  int i;
};

int main()
{
  Foo* f;
  f->foo();
}