Question

I have finished writing a program where you can enter 20 students’ grades and calculate their averages as well as the total test average. However, although it does compile and run, I get the following warnings:

In constructor 'student::student()':
warning: 'student::name' should be initialized in the member initialization list
note: synthesized method 'student::student()' first required here

What causes this? I’m assuming it’s worth noting and fixing, so how would I fix it? I have included what I believe to be the relevant parts of the code for review:

#include <iostream>
#include <string>

using namespace std;

struct student
{ // The first warning is for this line
    string name;
    double testGrade[5];
};

student theStudent[20]; // The second warning is for this line

I appreciate any help you can offer to me.

Answer 1

You can disregard that warning as nonsense. What compiler/version/flags are you using?