Benefits of virtual destructor in abstract classes?

Question

I have an abstract class with a couple of pure virtual methods, so should i make the destructor virtual too? is there any benefit of doing that?

Answer 1

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Answer 2

thanks

Answer 3

Yes you should have a virtual destructor for a base class. The benefit of this is that it allows you delete a derived class object via a pointer to a base class object.

Vehicle *v = new Car();
delete v; // will call derived class destructor.

Failing to do this could result in a memory leak.