Proper way to initialize C++ structs

Question

Our code involves a POD (Plain Old Datastructure) struct (it is a basic c++ struct that has other structs and POD variables in it that needs to get initialized in the beginn

Answer 1

You need to initialize whatever members you have in your struct, e.g.:

struct MyStruct {
  private:
    int someInt_;
    float someFloat_;

  public:
    MyStruct(): someInt_(0), someFloat_(1.0) {} // Initializer list will set appropriate values

};