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The first constructor - without parenthesis - provides what is called default initialization (do not confuse with default constructor). Default initialization leaves the values of fundamental types (int, double, etc) uninitialized, i.e. arbitrary. Therefore, with new Demo; you get uninitialized chunk of memory with arbitrary values in the fields.

The second constructor - with parenthesis - provides what is called value initialization. Value initialization zeros fundamental types. Therefore, with new Demo(); you get zero-initialized chunk of memory - all fields in this case will be zeros.