Beside the risk of memory leaks stated by @jmquigley pointer and pointeraritmetics can be considered problematic because pointers can point everywhere in memory causing "hard to find bugs" and "security vulnerableties".

Thats wy they were nearly abendoned in c# and java.

Beside the risk of memory leaks stated by @jmquigley pointer and pointer arithmetic can be considered problematic because pointers can point everywhere in memory causing "hard to find bugs" and "security vulnerableties".

That is why they were nearly abandoned in C# and Java.