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From: dog@cbnewsl.ATT.COM (edward.n.schiebel)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: copy objects to another location
Message-ID: <1822@cbnewsl.ATT.COM>
Date: 11 Sep 89 11:19:46 GMT
References: <14265@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU>
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From article <14265@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU>, by ttwang@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (Thomas Wang):
> ...
> There does not appear to be a portable way to copy an object from one
> memory location to another.  The operator '=' might be overloaded, so
> I cannot depend on it for copying.

Would the form of new: 
	new (some_address) X(an_x);
which places the new X, in this case initialized using the X(const X&) 
constructor, at the memory location some_address work?

	Ed Schiebel
	AT&T Bell Laboratories
	dog@vilya.att.com