The Art of Assembly Language, 2nd Edition

12.9 Constructors and Object Initialization

If you've tried to get a little ahead of the game and write a program that uses objects prior to this point, you've probably discovered that the program inexplicably crashes whenever you attempt to run it. We've covered a lot of material in this chapter thus far, but you are still missing one crucial piece of information—how to properly initialize objects prior to use. This section will put the final piece into the puzzle and allow you to begin writing programs that use classes.

Consider the following object declaration and code fragment:

var
     bc: tBaseClass;
          .
          .
          .
     bc.mBase();

Remember that variables you declare in the var section are uninitialized at runtime. Therefore, when the program containing these ...