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From: steve@taumet.com (Stephen Clamage)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: The "new" Operator and the Copy Constructor
Message-ID: <643@taumet.com>
Date: 28 Mar 91 17:02:47 GMT
References: <1991Mar27.233549.1487@jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov>
Organization: Taumetric Corporation, San Diego
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seq@jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov (Sequence Folks) writes:

|1) The compiler complains when I try to create an object from the heap
|using the default copy constructor.
|	class D {};
|	D d;
|	D* pd;
|	pd = new D(d);

This is a compiler bug.  The code should work, and does on other 
compilers I tried.
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Steve Clamage, TauMetric Corp, steve@taumet.com