Code Error C4700 - Please Help

[puck2020]

Please help. I've been staring at and trying to fix this for hours. In Visual Studios I keep getting this error. cpp(36): error C4700: uninitialized local variable 'Eligible' used

#include <iostream>
#include <string>
#include <iomanip>
#include <fstream>
#include <cmath>


using namespace std;

void Getinput(int& Loantype, double& Income, double& Totaldebt, double& Loanamount);
void Autoloan(double Income, double Totaldebt, double Loanamount, bool& Eligible);
void Mortage(double Income, double Totaldebt, double Loanamount, bool& Eligible);
void Printreport(int& Loantype, double& Loanamount, bool& Eligible);




void main()
{
	int Loantype = 0;
	double Income, Totaldebt, Loanamount;
	bool Eligible;
	string Loantype2;
	
	
	while (Loantype != 3)
	{

	Getinput(Loantype, Income, Totaldebt, Loanamount);
		if (Loantype == 1)
		{
			Autoloan(Income, Totaldebt, Loanamount, Eligible);
			Printreport(Loantype, Loanamount, Eligible);
		}

		else if (Loantype == 2)
		{
			Mortage(Income, Totaldebt, Loanamount, Eligible);
			Printreport(Loantype, Loanamount, Eligible);
		}

		if (Loantype == 1)
			Loantype2 = "Auto";
		else if (Loantype == 2)
			Loantype2 = "Mortage";
	}
	         


}

	void Getinput(int& Loantype, double& Income, double& Totaldebt, double& Loanamount)
    {
		cout << "SELECT ONE OF THE FOLLOWING OPTIONS:" << endl << endl;
		cout << " 1    AUTO LOAN" << endl;
		cout << " 2    HOME MORTAGE LOAN" << endl;
		cout << " 3    STOP PROGRAM" << endl;
	
		cout << "ENTER A NUMBER:";
		cin >> Loantype;
		if (Loantype == 1 || Loantype == 2)
		{
			cout << "ENTER INCOME, TOTAL DEBT, AND LOAN AMOUNT." << endl;
			cin >> Income >> Totaldebt >> Loanamount;
		}

     }

	void Autoloan(double Income, double Totaldebt, double Loanamount, bool& Eligible)

	{
		if (Income - Totaldebt >= .5 * Loanamount)
			Eligible = true;
		else
			Eligible = false;
	}

	void Mortage(double Income, double Totaldebt, double Loanamount, bool& Eligible)

	{
		if (Income - Totaldebt >= .3 * Loanamount)
			Eligible = true;
		else
			Eligible = false;
	}

	void Printreport(int& Loantype, double& Loanamount, bool& Eligible)
    {	
		if (Eligible == true)
		{
			cout << "Loan Type" << Loantype << endl;

			cout << "Loan Amount" << Loanamount << endl;
			cout << "Eligible: YES" << endl;
		}
		if (Eligible == false)
		{
			cout << "Loan Type" << Loantype << endl;
			cout << "Loan Amount" << Loanamount << endl;
			cout << "Eligible: NO" << endl;
		}
	 }

[2kaud]

Using MS VS 2013 this compiles OK with no warnings/errors level 4. What version of VS are you using?

The issue might be that Eligible is defined but not initialised at the start of main() and is then passed by reference to autoloan() and mortage(). Try changing

bool Eligible;

to

bool Eligible = false;

Note that in main() you don't need the two sets of tests for Loantype. Loantype2 can be set within the previous Loantype conditions.

Also within Getinput() you are not checking for invalid input (eg entering a 'q' for an option which would cause the input stream to fail.

Printreport() also doesn't need its parameters passed by ref when they are not changed with the function and are POD types. They could be passed by value as in other functions.

[GCDEF]

You have some stylistic issues.

Autoloan and Mortgage would be better returning a bool than setting one passed in as an output parameter.

Eligible passed into PrintReport should be a const bool, not a bool& if you're not changing its value in the function.

[puck2020]

I'm running VS 2013.

[GCDEF]

I'm running VS 2013.

The compiler's right. You're using it without initializing it. Initialize it, ignore it, tell the compiler to ignore it or better yet, have your function return a bool as I suggested.