Is the pointer guaranteed to preserve its value after `delete` in C++?

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No, it’s not guaranteed and an implementation may legitimately assign zero to an lvalue operand to delete.

Bjarne Stroustrup had hoped that implementations would choose to do this, but not many do.

http://www.stroustrup.com/bs_faq2.html#delete-zero

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