Are the members of a heap allocated class automatically allocated in the heap?

Question

Let\'s say I have:

class A{
    public:
    int x;
    int y;
};

And I allocate an A instance like:

A *a = new A();
         


        

Answer 1

You will get one allocation on the heap that contains x and y. A is just a nice way to refer to that object.

I wish I could easily draw on Stack Overflow, but you can think of it something like this (very small) heap example:

        +-------------------------------+
        |            Heap               | 
        +-------------------------------+
        | Other memory here ...         | 
        +-------+-----------------------+
A *a -> | x | y | Other memory here ... |
        +-------+-----------------------+