C++ vs Java constructors

Question

According to John C. Mitchell - Concepts in programming languages,

[...] Java guarantees that a constructor is called whenever an object is created.

Answer 1

What he means is in Java, constructor of the super class is always called. This is done by calling super(...), and if you omit this compiler will insert one for you. Only exception is one constructor calls another constructor. In that case other constructor should call super(...).

This automatic code insertion by the compiler is strange actually. And if you do not have super(...) call, and the parent class does not have a constructor with no parameter it will result in a compile error. (It is odd to have a compile error for something that is automatically inserted.)

C++ will not do this automatic insertion for you.