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Re: non-const copy ctor
- From: Christian Fröbel <cfroebel at web dot de>
- To: gcc-help at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Sat, 8 Apr 2006 04:08:50 +0200
- Subject: Re: non-const copy ctor
- References: <C05C8045.D8C6%eljay@adobe.com>
Hi John,
John Love-Jensen wrote:
> [...]
> In C++, a copy constructor is a const reference.
Hmm, I would say *usually* it is a const reference.-- But eventually it is
not, like in my case or in the case of std::auto_ptr. Of course you could say
this isn't a copy constructor because it doesn't take a const reference. But
I think it is anyway because it still has the semantic of a copy operation.
Anyway, I need to have a constructor taking a non-const reference which g++
doesn't allow. And I still don't know why g++ is acting this way here and how
to work around it.
Yours,
Christian
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