Working of the delete keyword

Question

It says on here thst deleting a pointer pointing to some object of a class will destroy the object but that’ll only happen if the object is dynamically allocated right? Why would a normal object be destroyed if we delete a pointer pointing to it?!?
Won’t just the pointer be deleted, and the object still stay there?

Answer 1

To see the full article from MSDN (which Apoorva fetch the information from there) see:

[https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/h6227113.aspx]

Answer 2

When delete is used to deallocate memory for a C++ class object, the object's destructor is called before the object's memory is deallocated (if the object has a destructor). If the operand to the delete operator is a modifiable l-value, its value is undefined after the object is deleted.

Answer 3

The delete operator takes a pointer to a primitive or an object. Without a pointer, it wouldn't know what to delete. They can be overloaded, so it doesn't necessarily have to be real dynamic memory.