How to inherit constructors

[Food 4 Thought]

I've been through the internet and back, trying to looks for forum posts or tutorials on how to inherit a constructor from a parent class to a child class. I understand that when inheriting, constructors don't automatically inherit. How do I make it so that they do? I've been trying to experiment, but I'm not sure if the constructor is actually inheriting when I do:

//IN PARENT.H
      class Parent
      {
      protected:
            int health, xp, atkPow;
      public:
	Base(int a, int b, int c);
      };


      //IN PARENT.CCP
      Parent::Parent(int a, int b, int c)
      {
            health = a;
            xp = b;
            atkPow = c;
      }

//IN CHILD.H
      class Child : public Parent
      {
      public:
            Child(int a, int b, int c);      
      };

      
      //IN CHILD.CPP
      //Is the following line the correct way to inherit a constructor?
      Child::Child(int a, int b, int c) : Base(a, b, c)
      {
            //Are the contents of the parent constructor copied here?
      }

If that is not the correct way to inherit a constructor, could you please teach me the right way to do so, or lead me to an informative tutorial on how to do so?

Thanks in advance.

[MiiNiPaa]

You are delegating work to a parent constructor here. To inherit constructor you should do:

class Child : public Parent
{
    using Parent::Parent;
};

http://coliru.stacked-crooked.com/

(Also you forgot to rename Base to Parent)

[TheIdeasMan]

Hi,

There are a bunch of things that come up if you google "C++ inherit constructors"

Note you need to enable C++11 on your compiler.

http://codexpert.ro/blog/2013/08/26/inherited-constructors-in-cpp11/
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/347358/inheriting-constructors

[Food 4 Thought]

(Also you forgot to rename Base to Parent)

Noted

using Parent::Parent;

I'm not familiar with the using keyword. Should I look into it, or is it safe to say that the constructor is basically copied at this point?

[MiiNiPaa]

Using keyword has several meanings depending on context. What you need: http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/using_declaration
(In class definition, paragraph 2)

All meanings of using: http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/keyword/using