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While coding away new classes for your C++ project, do you have the habit of just dropping in a contructor definition, just in case you may in the future need to do some initialization at construction? A while ago, I had wondered if there would be any difference at compile time between having an empty constructor and having no constructor at all (and thus using the default constructor). I did a quick investigation by writing a simple test application and looking at the disassembly. It turned out that there is actually a difference (in a debug build). Read the rest of this entry »