Question

Here’s a weird issue I’m facing – probably something ultra-basic given my rusty C++ skills but I’m still perplexed :

• I’ve got a class
• We’ve also got an array of unsigned long longs in this class – let’s call that arr

My Class Interface :

typedef unsigned long long U64;

class DQClass
{
    public:
        DQClass (void);
        virtual ~DQClass (void);

        U64 arr[12];
};

Now as for the implementation…

Test 1 (This works) :

DQClass::DQClass (void)
{
        this->arr[0] = 0x8100000000000000ULL;
        this->arr[1] = 0x4200000000000000ULL;

        // and so on..
}

Test 2 (This doesn’t) :

DQClass::DQClass (void)
{
    this->arr = 
    {
        0x8100000000000000ULL,
        0x4200000000000000ULL,
        0x2400000000000000ULL,
        0x1000000000000000ULL,
        0x0800000000000000ULL,
        0x00FF000000000000ULL,
        FLIPV(0x8100000000000000ULL),
        FLIPV(0x4200000000000000ULL),
        FLIPV(0x2400000000000000ULL),
        FLIPV(0x1000000000000000ULL),
        FLIPV(0x0800000000000000ULL),
        FLIPV(0x00FF000000000000ULL)
    };
}

Error :

dqclass.cpp: In constructor ‘DQClass::DQClass()’:
dqclass.cpp:28: error: expected primary-expression before ‘{’ token
dqclass.cpp:28: error: expected `;' before ‘{’ token

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Why isn’t this working? Shouldn’t it be working in the same fashion as, e.g. U64 someArr[12] = {0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11} would?

Any ideas?

Answer 1

Arrays can’t be assigned like that (or any other way), only initialized:

 // sorry for bad formatting
DQClass::DQClass (void)
: arr(
    {
        0x8100000000000000ULL,
        0x4200000000000000ULL,
        0x2400000000000000ULL,
        0x1000000000000000ULL,
        0x0800000000000000ULL,
        0x00FF000000000000ULL,
        FLIPV(0x8100000000000000ULL),
        FLIPV(0x4200000000000000ULL),
        FLIPV(0x2400000000000000ULL),
        FLIPV(0x1000000000000000ULL),
        FLIPV(0x0800000000000000ULL),
        FLIPV(0x00FF000000000000ULL)
    }) {
}

Use constructor initialize list.

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You could also use std::array:

std::array<U64, 12> arr;

// ...

this->arr = 
    {{
        0x8100000000000000ULL,
        0x4200000000000000ULL,
        0x2400000000000000ULL,
        0x1000000000000000ULL,
        0x0800000000000000ULL,
        0x00FF000000000000ULL,
        FLIPV(0x8100000000000000ULL),
        FLIPV(0x4200000000000000ULL),
        FLIPV(0x2400000000000000ULL),
        FLIPV(0x1000000000000000ULL),
        FLIPV(0x0800000000000000ULL),
        FLIPV(0x00FF000000000000ULL)
    }};