Showing garbage values when adding two matrix using operator overloading - c++

Question

Please help me as I am new to programming and I have made this program and it looks fine to me but I am getting garbage values instead of sum of two matrix.I have applied the concept of operator overloading to find the sum of two matrices but I am getting garbage values again and again?Please help me that where is the problem?Thanks.Any help is completely appreciated
#include<iostream>
#include<string>
using namespace std;
class Matrix {
private:
int matrix[2][2];
public:
Matrix operator + (Matrix Sum)
{
Matrix sum[2][2];
for (int i = 0; i < 2; i++)
{
for (int j = 0; j < 2; j++)
{
sum[i][j].matrix[i][j] = matrix[i][j] + Sum.matrix[i][j];
return(sum[i][j]);
}
}
}
void setMatrix(int m[][2])
{
for (int i = 0; i < 2; i++)
{
for (int j = 0; j < 2; j++)
{
matrix[i][j] = m[i][j];
}
}
}
void Display()
{
cout << "\n\nThe matrix finally equals: ";
for (int i = 0; i < 2; i++)
{
cout << " ";
for (int j = 0; j < 2; j++)
{
cout<<matrix[i][j];
if (j == 2 - 1)
cout << endl;
}
}
}
};
int main()
{
Matrix m1, m2,sum;
const int size=2;
int matrix1[size][size];
int matrix2[size][size];
cout << "Enter the values of matrix 1 (2 X 2)\n\n";
for (int i = 0; i < size; i++)
{
for (int j = 0; j < size; j++)
{
cin >> matrix1[i][j];
}
}
cout << "Enter the values of matrix 2 (2 X 2)\n\n";
for (int i = 0; i < size; i++)
{
for (int j = 0; j < size; j++)
{
cin >> matrix2[i][j];
}
}
cout <<"\n\nSetting the values now\n\n";
m1.setMatrix(matrix1);
m2.setMatrix(matrix2);
sum = m1 + m2;
cout << "\n\nMatrix 1 (2 X 2) is : ";
for (int i = 0; i < size; ++i)
{
for (int j = 0; j < size; ++j)
{
cout << matrix1[i][j] << " ";
if (j == size - 1)
cout << endl;
}
}
cout << "\n\nMatrix 2 (2 X 2) is : ";
for (int i = 0; i < size; ++i)
{
for (int j = 0; j < size; ++j)
{
cout << matrix2[i][j] << " ";
if (j == size - 1)
cout << endl;
}
}
cout << "\n\nSum of two matrices is equal to (2 X 2) is : ";
sum.Display();
return 0;
}

Answer 1

Let's take a close look at you operator+, there are two major errors:
Matrix sum[2][2]; is an array of matrices, but you want to return only a single Matrix, not multiple. Also the name is bad, because you already have a parameter with a similiar name. And yes, C++ is case sensitive, but such similiar names are problematic for human readers ;).
Look where the return is. It will return during the first iteration, e.g.
sum[i][j].matrix[i][j] = matrix[i][j] + Sum.matrix[i][j];
will be called just once, with i and j being zero. Thus it sets only one entry and returns immediately afterwards (leaving the other 3 values uninitialized). That's where the garbage values come from, technically it's undefined behaviour.
Here is what the function should look like, but please don't just copy-paste, but take some time to understand it.
Matrix operator + (Matrix rhs) // One of the two names needed to change.
{
Matrix sum; //only one value with a proper name
for (int i = 0; i < 2; i++)
{
for (int j = 0; j < 2; j++)
{
// better be explicit and use this, imo
sum.matrix[i][j] = this->matrix[i][j] + rhs.matrix[i][j];
}
}
return sum; // return only after all the calculations.
}