Does delete on a pointer to a subclass call the base class destructor?

Question

I have an class A which uses a heap memory allocation for one of its fields. Class A is instantiated and stored as a pointer field in another class (clas

Answer 1

I was wondering why my class' destructor was not called. The reason was that I had forgot to include definition of that class (#include "class.h"). I only had a declaration like "class A;" and the compiler was happy with it and let me call "delete".