Re: initializing a member pointer

hello, I have probably a stupid question, but I don't get one thing.
In the following source, the first constructor "does not work" - it
creates a pointer variable pI, sets ii as *pI, but this created pI is
not the member one, the *C::pI is still uninitialised. In the later
constructor it's ok.
What's wrong with the first one?
Thank you for your help and time

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#include <iostream>

class C
{
private:
        int *pI;
public:
        /**/
        // this constuctor does not work
        C(int ii) {
                int *pI = new int(ii);
        }
        /**/
        // this one is ok
        /*
        C(int ii) {
                int *pTmp = new int(ii);
                pI = pTmp;
        }
        */
        ~C() {delete pI;}
        void print()
        {
                std::cout << " *pI = " << *pI << std::endl;
        }};

        int main(int argc, char* argv[])
        {
                C d(3);
                d.print();
        }

pI.