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Replies for: Hello Tomislav, Thanks for sharing great information. I tried what you said about the default copy constructor, but the memory address of those obj...

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Tomislav Kraljic • • Edited 
    Student* s1 = new Student("Tommy", 23);
    std::cout << s1 << std::endl;

    Student* s2(s1);
    std::cout << s2 << std::endl;
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You want to create a new instance of Student with a pointer. The pointer points to a memory address when you create the first object. When you shallow copy it, it also copies the memory address of the first student.