In this piece of code, why is A's constructor with no parameters not inherited? Is there a special rule that prevents inheriting constructors with no parameters?
struct A {
A(void *) {}
A() {}
};
class B : public A {
public:
using A::A;
B(int x) {}
};
void f() {
B b(1);
B b2(nullptr);
B b3; // error
}
clang++ -std=c++11 gives this error, and g++ -std=c++11 gives a substantially similar error message:
td.cpp:15:7: error: no matching constructor for initialization of 'B'
B b3; // error
^
td.cpp:9:5: note: candidate constructor not viable: requires single argument 'x', but no arguments
were provided
B(int x) {}
^
td.cpp:8:14: note: candidate constructor (inherited) not viable: requires 1 argument, but 0 were
provided
using A::A;
^
td.cpp:2:5: note: inherited from here
A(void *) {}
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