Does new[] call default constructor in C++?

Question

When I use new[] to create an array of my classes:

int count = 10;
A *arr = new A[count];

I see that it calls a default constructor of A count times. As a result arr has count initialized objects of type A. But if I use the same thing to construct an int array:

int *arr2 = new int[count];

it is not initialized. All values are something like -842150451 though default constructor of int assignes its value to 0.

Why is there so different behavior? Does a default constructor not called only for built-in types?

Answer 1

See the accepted answer to a very similar question. When you use new[] each element is initialized by the default constructor except when the type is a built-in type. Built-in types are left unitialized by default.

To have built-in type array default-initialized use

new int[size]();

Answer 2

Built-in types don't have a default constructor even though they can in some cases receive a default value.

But in your case, new just allocates enough space in memory to store count int objects, ie. it allocates sizeof<int>*count.

Answer 3

int is not a class, it's a built in data type, therefore no constructor is called for it.