Why does typeid.name() return 'random' characters? 😕

Question

I tried using it in this code 👇
https://code.sololearn.com/c29mUiJEjNFz/?ref=app

It only does that on gcc, but works fine on Visual Studio.

Answer 1

Sonic I've tried to initialize them - doesn't change anything

Answer 2

I think it's because the letter variable is not initialised and therefore contains garbage/random values.

Answer 3

https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/typeid

Answer 4

~ swim ~ nice enlightening explanation