Segmentation Fault on object Creation

[Vinoth Rajendran4]

Hello All,

class Hello
{
public:
         Hello* obj = new Hello;
         inline Hello()
        {
            cout << "Constructor";
        }
        inline ~Hello()
        {
            cout << "Destructor";
        }
};

When i create an object of Hello , i am getting segmentation fault.

Can someone please help he understand the inner working on why segmentation fault happens.

Any help is deeply appreciated. Thanks in advance

[Christian Ehrlicher]

Because it's an infinite recursion - with every creation of a Hello object you create a new one.

[JonB]

@Vinoth-Rajendran4
Further to @Christian-Ehrlicher, in other words that means you need to delete the statement Hello* obj = new Hello;! Your calling code will go new Hello, and that will execute your constructor and return the created instance, you don't want another new Hello anywhere inside your Hello class as it stands.