destructors

[itld]

howdy,
if a destructor is put into a class and its function body has no delete keyword in it.

stuff::~stuff(){
cout<<"am i Destructive!"<<endl;
}

will it over ride the compilers call to destruct the object or will it still act like a destructor and free up the resources used by the object?

M.R.

[Prelude]

If you define a destructor then the default destructor won't be used. It still acts like a destructor and reclaims memory allocated for the object, but not by the object. If you allocate memory with new in your class anywhere and don't free it, then you must be sure to check and see if it was freed and if not free it in the destructor. The default destructor won't do that for you anyway.

-Prelude

[itld]

howdy Prelude,
i understand everything you said except this -

but not by the object.

do you mean if an object has been created its memory will not be freed up when it goes out of scope?

M.R.

[Prelude]

I mean if your class uses new to allocate memory for something then it has to explicitly delete that memory. The destructor doesn't do that for you by default.

-Prelude