Question

Why is that protected members in the base class where not accessible in the derived class?

class ClassA
{
public:
    int publicmemberA;

protected:
    int protectedmemberA;

private:
    int privatememberA;

    ClassA();
};

class ClassB : public ClassA
{
};

int main ()
{
    ClassB b;
    b.protectedmemberA; // this says it is not accesible, violation?
    //.....
}

Answer 1

You can access protectedmemberA inside b. You’re attempting to access it from the outside. It has nothing to do with inheritance.

This happens for the same reason as the following:

class B
{
protected:
   int x;
};

//...

B b;
b.x = 0;  //also illegal