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Class inherited from class without default constructor

Right now I have a class A that inherits from class B, and B does not have a default constructor. I am trying the create a constructor for A that has the exact same parameters for B's constructor

struct B {
  int n;
  B(int i) : n(i) {}
};

struct A : B {
  A(int i) {
    // ...
  }
};

but I get:

error: no matching function for call to ‘B::B()’
note: candidates are: B::B(int)

How would I fix this error?

Solution

  • The constructor should look like this:

    A(int i) : B(i) {}

    The bit after the colon means, "initialize the B base class sub object of this object using its int constructor, with the value i".

    I guess that you didn't provide an initializer for B, and hence by default the compiler attempts to initialize it with the non-existent no-args constructor.