Why is my destructor never called?

Question

I have a base class A and a derived class B:

class A
{
public:
    virtual f();
};

class B : public A
{
public:
     B()
     {
         p = new char [100];
            


        

Answer 1

try this:

class A
{
public:
    virtual ~A() {}
    virtual f();
};

class B : public A
{
public:
     B()
     {
         p = new char [100];
     }
     virtual ~B() // virtual keywork optional but occasionally helpful for self documentation.
     {
         delete [] p;
     }
     f();
private:
    char *p;
};