A C++ function declaring several uninitialized pointers one after the other is very suspicious anyway. It looks like the programmer is trying to write old-schoo

A C++ function declaring several uninitialized pointers one after the other is very suspicious anyway. It looks like the programmer is trying to write old-school (pre C99) C code (declaring all variables at the top of the function) in C++. Typedeffing pointers, especially for the sole purpose of "being less verbose" when declaring uninitialized pointers, is a red flag too.