Howmany no of instances created in the inheritance tree?

[Mihir Patel]

Hi all,

Please let me know that how many instance will be created in the inheritance tree if we create the instance of the subclass?

e.g.

class A{}
class B extends A{}
class C extends B{}

1) here if we create the instance of class C (C objC = new C()) then how many instance will be created?
2) if it'll create only 1 instance of class C then why it'll not create the instance of the base classes A and B eventhough it'll call the constructors of the base classes?

Thanks.

[Matthew Brown]

It will create 1 C object, which is also a B object and an A object (C IS-A B, B IS-A A).

A constructor doesn't create a new object. It initialises a new object that is created by the new operator. The A and B constructors will be called to carry out the initialisation associated with those classes.

[Mihir Patel]

Thanks Brown!!!