Initialization with parameters

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I am following this tutorial on audio programming in C++ an theres is something I do not understand; what does the fourth line suppose to represent? I understand I am not creating an instance of AudioObject because I do not instantiate it with the new keyword. However why can assign attributes to it? This closely resembles a function declaration which gets me confused as sound is a used as reference elsewhere in my main. e.g

SampleInfo info; //struct
info.volume = 1.0;

AudioObject sound(info, data); //<--this line


//why can assign info, data

Read up on the "Most Vexing Parse": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Most_vexing_parse — Alex Zywicki, Feb 10 '17 at 04:01
@AlexZywicki It's a good read indeed, but there is no most vexing parse here though. — vsoftco, Feb 10 '17 at 04:01

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 10 '17 at 03:54

You are in fact creating an instance of an AudioObject with automatic storage duration , but not a dynamically allocated instance (via new). info and data are the arguments you pass to the constructor. Avoid using new except when you really need it, C++ is not Java.

Initialization with parameters

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