Re: [boost] How to create a shallow copy without calling a constructor?

vicente.botet wrote:

I have tried with

class C { public: C* shallow_clone() { C* p = reinterpret_cast<C>(malloc(sizeof(C)); if (p==0) { throw std::bad_alloc(); } memcpy(p, this, sizeof(C)); return p; } };

Or, maybe more appropriate, C* shallow_clone() { C* p = static_cast<C*>(::operator new(sizeof(C))); memcpy(p, this, sizeof(C)); return p; }