Object Creation Problem

[Suyash Upadhyay]

Hello All,
I was going through a very simple looking program, but as I am a newbie in C++ it created problem for me. I thought it will give compilation error but it went smoothly.

#include<iostream>
using namespace std;
 
class sample
{
    int i;
    public:
        sample(int ii)
        {
            i=ii;
        }
};
 
class comp
{
      sample s;
    public:
        comp(int ii) : s(10)
        {
        }
};
 
 
int main()
{
    comp c(10);
}

I faced following problems:
(1) In class comp object of class sample has been created but no corresponding constructor is in sample class,i.e., constructor with zero arguments, so this should create an error, but it doesn't.
(2) What is the meaning of : operator in comp(int ii) : s(10).

Please help me
thanx in advance.

[weaknessforcats]

I moved this thread from the C/C++ Articles to this forum.

(1) In class comp object of class sample has been created but no corresponding constructor is in sample class,i.e., constructor with zero arguments, so this should create an error, but it doesn't.

A constructor is used to initialize objects when they are created. If a class has no constructor, then then class members will be initialized according to their type.

In your case, Sample does have a constructor. Because of this, all Sample objects will require a constructor:

Sample obj(25);   //OK calls the Sample constructor
 
Sample obj1;      //ERROR: no appropriate constructor
 

The : operator identifies an initializer list. The initializer list is used to place values into the class members before the { of the constructor. The comp class has a Sample member. The Sample member will created and initialized before the { of the comp constructor. In your example, this member is initialized by calling the Sample constructor with a 10.

If you remove the initializer list:

comp(int ii) 
        {
        }
 

then the Sample member will still need to be initialized but the Sample class does not have a default constructor. As a result, your compiler will produce an error.

[idlyatall]

(2) What is the meaning of : operator in comp(int ii) : s(10), The : operator of a constructor is a initializer of a member variable or a base class, that is member variable s is initialized (it's constructor called) with a value of 10.

For instance

 class MyC
{
public:
  int i1, i2;
  MyC( int x, int y) : i1(x), i2(y) {}
};
 

initialized member variable i1 with x and i2 with y. If base class with constructor then this will initialize base class.

 class MyD : public MyC
{ 
  public:
 MyD( int z ) : MyC( z, z+1 ) {}
};
MyD d(3);
 

d.i1 will equal 3 and d.i2 will equal 4.

Hello All,
I was going through a very simple looking program, but as I am a newbie in C++ it created problem for me. I thought it will give compilation error but it went smoothly.

#include<iostream>
using namespace std;
 
class sample
{
    int i;
    public:
        sample(int ii)
        {
            i=ii;
        }
};
 
class comp
{
      sample s;
    public:
        comp(int ii) : s(10)
        {
        }
};
 
 
int main()
{
    comp c(10);
}

I faced following problems:
(1) In class comp object of class sample has been created but no corresponding constructor is in sample class,i.e., constructor with zero arguments, so this should create an error, but it doesn't.
(2) What is the meaning of : operator in comp(int ii) : s(10).

Please help me
thanx in advance.