🚀 go-pugleaf

hey all, I have a question

If I have an object with a bunch of pointers to stuff, and the destructor of
that object goes and destroys all the pointers too, then what happens when I
have a copy of that object, where only the values of the pointers were
copied, and then the copy gets destroyed?  How do I save the data the
pointer pointed to without making it invalid? (and hopefully without having
to write an operator= for it?

For instance

class Object
    {
    int *ptr;
    ~Object() {delete ptr;};
    };

Object obj1;
obj1.ptr = new int;     // say it now == 0x1234567

Object *obj2 = new Object;
*obj2 = obj1;    // now obj2->ptr == obj1.ptr == 0x1234567 via
member-to-member (compiler-generated) copy

delete obj2;    // this deletes ptr and makes *ptr bad data

obj1.ptr = ?????? // under MSVC this actually becomes == 0xafafafaf for easy
identification  I guess.


Is there an easy way to save the value of ptr, or to copy the contents of
obj1.ptr to obj2->ptr without rewriting the operator= function?

thanks
ms