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| • | Shallow
Copy: |
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| – | The
data members of one object are copied into the data |
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| members
of another object without taking any dynamic |
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| memory
pointed to by those data members into |
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| consideration.
(“memberwise copy”) |
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| • | Deep
Copy: |
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| – | Any
dynamic memory pointed to by the data members |
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| is
duplicated and the contents of that memory is copied |
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| (via
copy constructors and assignment operators -- |
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| when
overloaded) |
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