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Message: [QUOTE="Rolf Magnus, post: 2565806"] I acutally didn't, but I guess it depends on the point of view. The compiler-generated copy constructor will just copy all the members. If a member is a pointer, it won't copy what that pointer points to. However, if you have such a case, you usually need a user-defined constructor to either do a deep or shallow copy. If you don't have pointer members, the compiler-generated one may be sufficent. Then it will copy the whole object content. I guess in the end, it's best to separate the concept of constructors from the concept of deep/shallow copy. One is part of the language, the other is rather a design concept. [/QUOTE]