Scope of constructor initialisation list

From:
Pantokrator <adosis@shotoku.co.uk>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
18 May 2007 04:01:23 -0700
Message-ID:
<1179486083.480548.309580@e65g2000hsc.googlegroups.com>
Hi all,
I've got a question about the scope of the constructor initialisation
list. First of all, let me explain my classes:

// *****************************************************
class CThread
{
CThread(){};
CThread(CMyThreadFunctor *pThreadFunctor)
    {
        ...
    };
};
// *****************************************************
class CMyThreadFunctor
{
....
};
// *****************************************************
class CMyThread : public CThread
{

    CMyThreadFunctor *m_pThreadFunctor;

public:

    CMyThread()
        : CThread(m_pThreadFunctor = new CMyThreadFunctor(this)) <<<<
SCOPE-1
    {
        //CThread(m_pThreadFunctor = new CMyThreadFunctorIMO(this));
<<<<SCOPE-2

    }
};

When I init the CThread object using the constructor init list
(SCOPE-1), my CThread object runs fine without a problem. If I init
CThread within the constructor (SCOPE-2), my CThread calls the
destructor straight after initialisation and I suspect that it is
related to the scope of the object. I even tried the following but
without any luck:
class CMyThread : public CThread
{

    CMyThreadFunctor *m_pThreadFunctor;
CThread

public:

    CMyThread()
        : CThread(m_pThreadFunctor = new CMyThreadFunctor(this)) <<<<
SCOPE-1
    {
        //CThread(m_pThreadFunctor = new CMyThreadFunctorIMO(this));
<<<<SCOPE-2

    }
};

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