Destructor being called twice when being explicitly invoked

Question

I was experimenting with destructors in C++ with this piece of code:

#include 

struct temp
{
    ~temp() { std::cout << \"Hello!\" <         


        

Answer 1

The destructor is not the "destroyer" of the object. It's just an ordinary function, but it's called automatically by the language immediately prior to the time of destruction.

It's official name is the destructor, but perhaps it would be more easily understood if we called it the "Before-Destruction" function.