Question

I don’t get the point why my member is not initialised. I have something like this:

class A
{
  public:
    A() {member = 0;}
    int getMember() {return member;}
  protected:
    int member;
}

and

class B : public A
{
  public:
    B() : A() {member = 10;}
}

When I try to get the value of member from B it is always 0.
What do I miss here?

Thanks!

EDIT: Ctor is public now.

Answer 1

I tried two things and they both give the expected result:

class A
{
  public:
    A() {member = 0;}
    int getMember() {return member;}
  protected:
    int member;
};

class B : public A
{
public:
    B() : A() {member = 10;}
};

int main() {
    A* a = new B();
    cout << a->getMember() << endl;
    B b;
    cout << b.getMember() << endl;
    return 0;
}

This returns

output:
10
10

You can check the code at http://ideone.com/FArIAC