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Glennan Carnie

Technical Consultant at Feabhas Ltd

Glennan is an embedded systems and software engineer with over 20 years experience, mostly in high-integrity systems for the defence and aerospace industry.

He specialises in C++, UML, software modelling, Systems Engineering and process development.

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Default constructors

In C++ if you don’t provide a constructor for the class the compiler provides one for you (that does nothing):

This, of course, isn’t very useful so typically we write our own constructors to initialise the attributes of our class.  However, as soon as you write a (non-default) constructor the compiler stops providing the default constructor:

The normal solution is to write our own default constructor.  In C++11 there is syntax to allow you to explicitly create the compiler-supplied constructor without […]