To initialize means assigning an initial state to the object before it is used. This initialization can be part of the instantiation process, in that case values are explicitly assigned to object attributes …

} An important thing to remember: at the moment you initialize even one object/variable in the struct, all of its other variables will be initialized to default value. If you don't initialize the values …

How to directly initialize a HashMap (in a literal way)? Asked 14 years, 4 months ago Modified 5 months ago Viewed 2.1m times

How would you use memset to initialize a int array to some value larger than 255? memset only works if the array is byte sized.

The relevant part of C11 standard draft n1570 6.7.9 initialization says: 14 An array of character type may be initialized by a character string literal or UTF-8 string literal, optionally enclosed in …

Apr 30, 2009 · Even if all constructors for a class share a large amount of code, the use of a private initialize () function seems to make more sense to me than using an initializer because …

I'd like to iteratively fill the DataFrame with values in a time series kind of calculation. I'd like to initialize the DataFrame with columns A, B, and timestamp rows, all 0 or all NaN. I'd then add …

Jan 21, 2017 · The new syntax with () should value-initialize the object, assuming it is POD. Is it possible that some subpart of your struct isn't actually POD and that's preventing the expected …

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These are just a couple of examples where it isn't strictly necessary to initialize a variable, since it's set later (but not accessed between declaration and initialization). In general though, it …