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From: chip@tct.com (Chip Salzenberg)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: deepEquality and shallowEquality revisited.
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Date: 1 May 91 15:56:25 GMT
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In an article with which I otherwise agree, Jim Adcock writes:

>* C++ has VERY ill-defined rules about when and where compilers may make
>	a copy of an object, changing "its 'identity.'"

Those rules describe the creation of new objects, not the changing of
old objects' identities.  So I would consider object copying rules to
be a separate issue from object identity determination.
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