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Disabling constructors that you are not using

If you are not implementing the default constructor, copy constructor or the assignment operator, it is a good idea to declare them but do not implement then.
Doing this, you prevent that they are called automatically leaving uninitialized variables. 

class X {

  X(); // not used
  X(const X &); // not used

  Object * m_p;

public:

  X(Object * p) : m_p(p) {}
};

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