Initializing an object to all zeroes

Question

Oftentimes data structures\' valid initialization is to set all members to zero. Even when programming in C++, one may need to interface with an external API for which this

Answer 1

I've never understood the mysterious goodness of setting everything to zero, which even if it is defined seems unlikely to be desirable. As this is tagged as C++, the correct solution to initialisation is to give the struct or class a construtor.