Re: Variable Changes After Class Constructor Returns

From:
"Victor Bazarov" <v.Abazarov@comAcast.net>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Fri, 28 Mar 2008 10:34:08 -0400
Message-ID:
<fsivl1$eeq$1@news.datemas.de>
Hal Vaughan wrote:

I have a class defined in the header like this:

class HDCommands {
                bool seekall, valset, verbose; //Note this line for
[...]
       public:
               HDCommands();
//LONG list of control interface functions...
               void check(int);

};

LinuxPort and HDVals are two of my own classes that are both passed
into
this class and used through the pointers, as I've been told to do in
this
group and elsewhere. Here is my constructor:

HDCommands::HDCommands() {//public
       if (valset) return; //Note this line for later


Here you're _testing_ a member variable whose value is NOT set to
anything meaningful. It's not UB, but most likely it's just
random. So, the rest of the constructor body is randomly NOT
executed. This is the root of your problem, I believe.

[...]
}

[..]


Make sure you understand what data members mean and how their
values are set and used.

V
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