# V527\. The 'zero' value is assigned to pointer\. Probably meant: \*ptr \= zero\.

This error occurs in two similar cases\.

1\) The analyzer found a potential error: a pointer to bool type is assigned false value\. It is highly probable that the pointer dereferencing operation is missing\. For example:

```cpp
float Get(bool *retStatus)
{
  ...
  if (retStatus != nullptr)
    retStatus = false;
  ...
}
```

The '\*' operator is missing in this code\. The operation of nulling the retStatus pointer will be performed instead of status return\. This is the correct code:

```cpp
if (retStatus != nullptr)
  *retStatus = false;
```

2\) The analyzer found a potential error: a pointer referring to the char/wchar\_t type is assigned value '\\0' or L'\\0'\. It is highly probable that the pointer dereferencing operation is missing\. For example:

```cpp
char *cp;
...
cp = '\0';
```

This is the correct code:

```cpp
char *cp;
...
*cp = '\0';
```