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Message: [QUOTE="Frederick Gotham, post: 2565842"] Murali Krishna posted: Pre-requisites: (1) An original object which to copy. (2) A suitably aligned memory buffer. #include <string> int main() { std::string original; unsigned char *p_buf = new unsigned char[sizeof(std::string)]; /* Copying goes here */ /* Time for clean-up */ delete [] p_buf; } Here's a shallow copy: #include <string> #include <cstring> int main() { std::string original; unsigned char *p_buf = new unsigned char[sizeof(std::string)]; /* Copying goes here */ std::memcpy(p_buf, &original, sizeof original); /* Time for clean-up */ delete [] p_buf; } And here's a deep copy: #include <string> int main() { std::string original; unsigned char *p_buf = new unsigned char[sizeof(std::string)]; /* Copying goes here */ new(p_buf) std::string(original); /* Time for clean-up */ typedef std::string string; reinterpret_cast<std::string*>(p_buf)->~string(); delete [] p_buf; } [/QUOTE]