btVector3 Copy Constructor

[duncan]

Is there any particular reason why btVector3 relies on the default shallow copy constructor and doesn't do a deep copy of the array storing the data?

[warmi]

There is no point trying to outsmart your compiler in terms of making shallow copies and in this case there is no need for anything else since the vector class doesn't allocate any memory in the first place.

[duncan]

Thanks. I did some further reading on copy constructors and found out that the default copy constructor copies the elements of static arrays properly - I'd previously thought it didn't.

[williamholdin]

There is no point trying to outsmart your compiler in terms of making shallow copies and in this case there is no need for anything else since the vector class doesn't allocate any memory in the first place.

An object copy is a process where a data object has its attributes copied to another object of the same data type. In .Net Shallow copy and deep copy are used for copying data between objects.....more.

William