Destructor Question...

[CDuddley]

How do you know when an object is going to destruct? Provided you don't implicitly call the destructor. Thanks in advance. -CDudd

[Joaquin M Lopez Munoz]

If you create the object with new the destructor is called as part of the operations performed by delete. If the object is created on the stack (no new), the destructor is called when the object goes out of scope (e.g. if it is a local variable inside a function, the destructor is called when the function exits). Joaquín M López Muñoz Telefónica, Investigación y Desarrollo

[Ravi Bhavnani]

An object is destructed when explicitly deleted or when it goes out of scope, if created on the stack. An object is also destructed when its containing object (if any) is destructed. This applies to implicitly constructed members of the containing class. Dynamically created members need to be explicitly deleted. /ravi "There is always one more bug..." http://www.ravib.com ravib@ravib.com