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Define copy constructor? What is the use of copy constructor?

  
Total Answers and Comments: 1 Last Update: June 29, 2006     Asked by: suryateja03 
  
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RE: Define copy constructor? What is the use of copy c...
A copy constructor is used to initialize a newly declared variable from an existing variableA variable is declared which is initialized from another object A value parameter is initialized from its corresponding argument.f(p); // copy constructor initializes formal value parameter. An object is returned by a function.C++ calls a copy constructor to make a copy of an object in each of the above cases. If there is no copy constructor defined for the class C++ uses the default copy constructor which copies each field ie makes a shallow copy.
 
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