On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 1:29 PM, Julien Nitard <julien.nitard@m4tp.org>wrote:
Hi,
Consider an object hierarchy in which there may be multiple references to shared objects. A deep copy should give an identical, but entirely separate copy of the entire structure. Also consider eg std::map<std::string,T*>... the std::map copy constructor is not going to create new instances of T in the copy - this is a shallow copy.
If I understand properly, when you encounter a pointer you duplicate the object pointed to. Is that right ?
Often but not always. Sometimes a type will want specific behaviour, such as sharing an internal reference with the original object because there is some COW pattern implemented.
Does it work properly if (in your example above) T is a polymorphic class ? If yes, how ?
Yes, and in the same way boost.serialize works... each polymorphic class is registered beforehand.
Regards,
Julien
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