I have a base class and it's derived class, when I use the copy constructor, I want the whole object to be copied, not just the derived class. By default, when I call the copy constructor of the derived class, it will call the constructor of the base class. I want it to be entirely copied...and it shouldn't call the constructor. How would I do this? This is what I did until now, but it will still call the constructor and won't work for base classes with virtuals: How do you guys do this? Or is this not how the copy constructor is supposed to work? Thank you in advance.

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By default the copy constructor of the derived class will call the base class default constructor. You don't want that, you want to call the base class copy constructor right?

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Afaik the example you posted is first calling the default base constructor and then you are calling the base copy constructor to create a temporary. This copy-constructed temporary will be destroyed at the end of that statement.

Yes, exactly! I was looking at the debug output and I noticed there was a temporary being made and destroyed. This makes sense :)