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Why does the = operator work on structs without having been defined?
Let's look at a simple example:
Then abc_copy is an exact copy of abc .. how is it possible without defining the = operator ?
(This took me by surprise when working on some code..)
7 Answers 7
If you do not define these four methods (six in C++11) the compiler will generate them for you:
- Default Constructor
- Copy Constructor
Assignment Operator
- Move Constructor (C++11)
- Move Assignment (C++11)
If you want to know why? It is to maintain backward compatibility with C (because C structs are copyable using = and in declaration). But it also makes writing simple classes easier. Some would argue that it adds problems because of the "shallow copy problem". My argument against that is that you should not have a class with owned RAW pointers in it. By using the appropriate smart pointers that problem goes away.
Default Constructor (If no other constructors are defined)
The compiler generated default constructor will call the base classes default constructor and then each members default constructor (in the order they are declared)
Destructor (If no destructor defined)
Calls the destructor of each member in reverse order of declaration. Then calls the destructor of the base class.
Copy Constructor (If no copy constructor is defined)
Calls the base class copy constructor passing the src object. Then calls the copy constructor of each member using the src objects members as the value to be copied.
Calls the base class assignment operator passing the src object. Then calls the assignment operator on each member using the src object as the value to be copied.
Move Constructor (If no move constructor is defined)
Calls the base class move constructor passing the src object. Then calls the move constructor of each member using the src objects members as the value to be moved.
Move Assignment Operator
Calls the base class move assignment operator passing the src object. Then calls the move assignment operator on each member using the src object as the value to be copied.
If you define a class like this:
What the compiler will build is:

- This is an insanely good answer already, but I would love to see an example using the smart pointers. I've never been amazing at auto_ptr – Hamy Apr 17, 2013 at 6:17
- @Hamy: This is the information you need to build the smart pointer. If you are using smart pointers then you don't actually need to worry about this. You only need to worry about the above if you have RAW owned pointers in your class. – Martin York Apr 17, 2013 at 15:07
- 1 This answer confuses the types of initialization . With no initializer, the struct will be default initialized : its POD-typed members will assume indeterminate values. With an empty initializer, the struct will be value initialized : its POD-typed members will be zero initialized . – Matt Whitlock Jan 2, 2017 at 19:07
In C++, structs are equivalent to classes where members default to public rather than private access.
C++ compilers will also generate the following special members of a class automatically if they are not provided:
- Default constructor - no arguments, default initalizes everything.
- Copy constructor - ie a method with the same name as the class, that takes a reference to another object of the same class. Copies all values across.
- Destructor - Called when the object is destroyed. By default does nothing.
- Assignment operator - Called when one struct/class is assigned to another. This is the automatically generated method that's being called in the above case.
- 3 An implicit default constructor is also not provided if there is any user-defined constructor. – sellibitze Oct 16, 2009 at 9:31
- An implicit destructor also invokes destructors of members and subobjects (if there are any) – sellibitze Oct 16, 2009 at 9:34
That behavior is necessary in order to maintain source compatibility with C.
C does not give you the ability to define/override operators, so structs are normally copied with the = operator.
- K&R C didn't allow for structures to be copied with = at all, and I'm not sure about C89. If it was introduced in C99, then I'd argue that it was due to C++ influence. – ephemient Oct 15, 2009 at 22:16
- 4 According to K&R (2nd edition, 1988, p. 127) it was introduced by ANSI C but most existing compilers already supported it. – Ferruccio Oct 18, 2009 at 13:40
But it is defined. In the standard. If you supply no operator =, one is supplied to you. And the default operator just copies each of the member variables. And how does it know which way to copy each member? it calls their operator = (which, if not defined, is supplied by default...).
The assignment operator ( operator= ) is one of the implicitly generated functions for a struct or class in C++.
Here is a reference describing the 4 implicitly generated members: http://www.cs.ucf.edu/~leavens/larchc++manual/lcpp_136.html
In short, the implicitly generated member performs a memberwise shallow copy . Here is the long version from the linked page:
The implicitly-generated assignment operator specification, when needed, is the following. The specification says that the result is the object being assigned ( self ), and that the value of the abstract value of self in the post-state self " is the same as the value of the abstract value of the argument from .
- The default assignment operator can't throw because it doesn't allocate any memory. :dunno: – Sam Harwell Oct 16, 2009 at 1:16
- 4 @Rob: The definition of the default copy assignment operator starting at 12.8:10 makes no mention of a throw clause. This makes sense to me, since a default copy assignment operator can call a non-default assignment, which could throw. In the specific example given in the question obviously std::string::operator=(const std::string&) can throw. – Steve Jessop Oct 16, 2009 at 1:45
The compiler will synthesise some members for you if you don't define them explicitly yourself. The assignment operator is one of them. A copy constructor is another, and you get a destructor too. You also get a default constructor if you don't provide any constructors of your own. Beyond that I'm not sure what else but I believe there may be others (the link in the answer given by 280Z28 suggests otherwise though and I can't remember where I read it now so maybe it's only four).
structs are basically a concatenation of its components in memory (with some possible padding built in for alignment). When you assign one struct the value of another, the values are just coped over.
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Copy assignment operators (C++ only)
The copy assignment operator lets you create a new object from an existing one by initialization. A copy assignment operator of a class A is a nonstatic non-template member function that has one of the following forms:
- A::operator=(A)
- A::operator=(A&)
- A::operator=(const A&)
- A::operator=(volatile A&)
- A::operator=(const volatile A&)
If you do not declare a copy assignment operator for a class A , the compiler will implicitly declare one for you which will be inline public.
The following example demonstrates implicitly defined and user-defined copy assignment operators:
The following is the output of the above example:
The assignment x = y calls the implicitly defined copy assignment operator of B , which calls the user-defined copy assignment operator A::operator=(const A&) . The assignment w = z calls the user-defined operator A::operator=(A&) . The compiler will not allow the assignment i = j because an operator C::operator=(const C&) has not been defined.
The implicitly declared copy assignment operator of a class A will have the form A& A::operator=(const A&) if the following are true:
- A direct or virtual base B of class A has a copy assignment operator whose parameter is of type const B& , const volatile B& , or B .
- A non-static class type data member of type X that belongs to class A has a copy constructor whose parameter is of type const X& , const volatile X& , or X .
If the above are not true for a class A , the compiler will implicitly declare a copy assignment operator with the form A& A::operator=(A&) .
The implicitly declared copy assignment operator returns a reference to the operator's argument.
The copy assignment operator of a derived class hides the copy assignment operator of its base class.
The compiler cannot allow a program in which the compiler must implicitly define a copy assignment operator for a class A and one or more of the following are true:
- Class A has a nonstatic data member of a const type or a reference type
- Class A has a nonstatic data member of a type which has an inaccessible copy assignment operator
- Class A is derived from a base class with an inaccessible copy assignment operator.
An implicitly defined copy assignment operator of a class A will first assign the direct base classes of A in the order that they appear in the definition of A . Next, the implicitly defined copy assignment operator will assign the nonstatic data members of A in the order of their declaration in the definition of A .
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Copy assignment operator.
A copy assignment operator of class T is a non-template non-static member function with the name operator = that takes exactly one parameter (that isn't an explicit object parameter ) of type T , T & , const T & , volatile T & , or const volatile T & . For a type to be CopyAssignable , it must have a public copy assignment operator.
[ edit ] Syntax
[ edit ] explanation.
The copy assignment operator is called whenever selected by overload resolution , e.g. when an object appears on the left side of an assignment expression.
[ edit ] Implicitly-declared copy assignment operator
If no user-defined copy assignment operators are provided for a class type ( struct , class , or union ), the compiler will always declare one as an inline public member of the class. This implicitly-declared copy assignment operator has the form T & T :: operator = ( const T & ) if all of the following is true:
- each direct base B of T has a copy assignment operator whose parameters are B or const B & or const volatile B & ;
- each non-static data member M of T of class type or array of class type has a copy assignment operator whose parameters are M or const M & or const volatile M & .
Otherwise the implicitly-declared copy assignment operator is declared as T & T :: operator = ( T & ) . (Note that due to these rules, the implicitly-declared copy assignment operator cannot bind to a volatile lvalue argument.)
A class can have multiple copy assignment operators, e.g. both T & T :: operator = ( T & ) and T & T :: operator = ( T ) . If some user-defined copy assignment operators are present, the user may still force the generation of the implicitly declared copy assignment operator with the keyword default . (since C++11)
The implicitly-declared (or defaulted on its first declaration) copy assignment operator has an exception specification as described in dynamic exception specification (until C++17) noexcept specification (since C++17)
Because the copy assignment operator is always declared for any class, the base class assignment operator is always hidden. If a using-declaration is used to bring in the assignment operator from the base class, and its argument type could be the same as the argument type of the implicit assignment operator of the derived class, the using-declaration is also hidden by the implicit declaration.
[ edit ] Deleted implicitly-declared copy assignment operator
An implicitly-declared copy assignment operator for class T is defined as deleted if any of the following is true:
- T has a user-declared move constructor;
- T has a user-declared move assignment operator.
Otherwise, it is defined as defaulted.
A defaulted copy assignment operator for class T is defined as deleted if any of the following is true:
- T has a non-static data member of a const-qualified non-class type (or array thereof);
- T has a non-static data member of a reference type;
- T has a non-static data member or a direct base class that cannot be copy-assigned (overload resolution for the copy assignment fails, or selects a deleted or inaccessible function);
- T is a union-like class , and has a variant member whose corresponding assignment operator is non-trivial.
[ edit ] Trivial copy assignment operator
The copy assignment operator for class T is trivial if all of the following is true:
- it is not user-provided (meaning, it is implicitly-defined or defaulted);
- T has no virtual member functions;
- T has no virtual base classes;
- the copy assignment operator selected for every direct base of T is trivial;
- the copy assignment operator selected for every non-static class type (or array of class type) member of T is trivial.
A trivial copy assignment operator makes a copy of the object representation as if by std::memmove . All data types compatible with the C language (POD types) are trivially copy-assignable.
[ edit ] Eligible copy assignment operator
Triviality of eligible copy assignment operators determines whether the class is a trivially copyable type .
[ edit ] Implicitly-defined copy assignment operator
If the implicitly-declared copy assignment operator is neither deleted nor trivial, it is defined (that is, a function body is generated and compiled) by the compiler if odr-used or needed for constant evaluation (since C++14) . For union types, the implicitly-defined copy assignment copies the object representation (as by std::memmove ). For non-union class types ( class and struct ), the operator performs member-wise copy assignment of the object's bases and non-static members, in their initialization order, using built-in assignment for the scalars and copy assignment operator for class types.
[ edit ] Notes
If both copy and move assignment operators are provided, overload resolution selects the move assignment if the argument is an rvalue (either a prvalue such as a nameless temporary or an xvalue such as the result of std::move ), and selects the copy assignment if the argument is an lvalue (named object or a function/operator returning lvalue reference). If only the copy assignment is provided, all argument categories select it (as long as it takes its argument by value or as reference to const, since rvalues can bind to const references), which makes copy assignment the fallback for move assignment, when move is unavailable.
It is unspecified whether virtual base class subobjects that are accessible through more than one path in the inheritance lattice, are assigned more than once by the implicitly-defined copy assignment operator (same applies to move assignment ).
See assignment operator overloading for additional detail on the expected behavior of a user-defined copy-assignment operator.
[ edit ] Example
[ edit ] defect reports.
The following behavior-changing defect reports were applied retroactively to previously published C++ standards.
[ edit ] See also
- converting constructor
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We can use a blueprint as another metaphor for a structure. Blueprints show essential details like the number and size of bedrooms. Similarly, structure specifications show the number, type, name, and order of the structure fields. Nevertheless, a blueprint isn't a house, and you can't live in it. However, given the blueprint, we can make as many identical houses as we wish, and while each one looks like the others, it has a different, distinct set of occupants and a distinct street address. Similarly, each object created from a structure specification looks like the others, but each can store distinct values, and each has a distinct memory address.
- C++ code that defines three new student structure variables or objects named s1 , s2 , and s3 . The program allocates the memory for the three objects on the stack.
- The pointer variables s4 , s5 , and s6 are defined and allocated automatically on the stack, but the structure objects to which they point are allocated dynamically on on the heap.
- An abstract representation of three student objects on the stack. Each object has three fields.
- An abstract representation of three student pointer variables pointing to three student objects allocated dynamically on the heap with the new operator.
Initializing Structures And Fields
Figure 2 demonstrates that we are not required to initialize structure objects when we create them - perhaps the program will read the data from the console or a data file. However, we can initialize structures when it is convenient. C++ inherited an aggregate field initialization syntax from the C programming language, and the 2011 ANSI standard extends that syntax making it conform to other major programming languages. More recently, the ANSI 2020 standard added a variety of default field initializations. The following figures illustrate a few of these options.
- The order that each field appears in the structure and the order that the values appear in the initialization list are significant. The first value in the list is stored in the first field in the structure and so on until the last value in the list is stored in the last structure field. If there are fewer initializers (the elements inside the braces) than there are fields, the excess fields are initialized to their zero-equivalents . It is a compile-time error to have more initializers than fields.
- Similar to (a), but = is no longer required.
- Historically, en block structure initialization was only allowed when the structure object was defined, but the ANSI 2015 standard removed that restriction, allowing en bloc assignment to previously defined variables.
- An abstract representation of three structure variables, each with three fields. Although every student must have the same three fields, the values stored in the corresponding fields of different students may be different.
- Another way to conceptualize structures and variables is as the rows and columns of a simple database table: each column represents one field and reach row represents one variable. The number of columns is fixed by the database schema but any number of rows may be added to the table.
- Initializing a structure object when it is defined. The = sign is now optional.
- Designated initializers are more flexible than the non-designated initializers illustrated in Figure 3, which are matched to structure fields by position (first initializer to the first field, second initializer to the second field, etc.). Designated initializers may skip a field - in this example, name is not initialized.
- Designators may also be used with aggregate assignment to previously defined structure objects.
The next step is to see how to access the individual fields within a structure object.
Field Selection: The Dot And Arrow Operators
A basket is potentially beneficial, but so far, we have only seen how to put items into the basket, and then only all at once. To achieve its full potential, we need some way to put items into the basket one at a time, and there must be some way to access the items in the basket. C++ provides two selection operators that join a specific structure object with a named field in the structure. The combination of an object and a field form a variable whose type matches the field type in the structure specification.
The Dot Operator
The C++ dot operator looks and behaves just like Java's dot operator, and it performs the same tasks in both languages.
- The general dot operator syntax.
- Examples illustrate the dot operator based on the student examples in Figure 3(a).
- The dot operator's left operand names the specific basket or object containing the field we wish to access, and the right hand operand names the field. In terms of the table presented above, the left hand operand selects the row and the right hand operand selects the column. So, s2 . name can be visualized as the intersection of a row and column.
The Arrow Operator
Java only has one way of creating objects, so it only needs one operator to access the object's fields. C++ has two ways of creating objects (see Figure 2), so it needs a second operator to access an object's fields. The arrow operator, -> , is C++'s second selection operator.
- The general arrow operator syntax.
- Examples illustrate the arrow operator based on the student examples in Figure 3(b).
Choosing the correct selection operator
- If the left-hand operand is a pointer, choose the arrow operator;
- otherwise, choose the dot operator.
Moving Structures Within A Program
If a structure makes it easy to move many fields around a program as a group, how is it moved? The answer is that we treat a structure variable just about like we would any other variable. Specifically, we can assign one structure to another (as long as they are instances of the same structure specification), pass them as arguments to functions, and functions can return them as their return value.
Assignment is a fundamental operation regardless of the kind of data involved. The C++ code to assign one structure to another is simple and should look familiar:
- C++ code that defines a new structure object and copies an existing object to it by assignment. The object named s1 must either be in the same scope as is s4 or in an accessible sub-scope
- A structure definition creates a new, empty structure
- An existing, initialized structure object is assigned (i.e., copied) to the new structure object
Function Argument
Although passing a structure as an argument to a function has a much different syntax than does assignment, the effect is pretty much the same:
- The first part of this C++ code defines a function (similar to a Java method). The argument is a student structure. The last statement passes a previously created and initialized structure as an argument to the function.
- An abstract representation depicting the data stored in the original object being copied to the function argument. An argument passed to a function behaves like an assignment operation: the actual argument (s2) is copied to the formal argument (temp). The braces that form the body of the print function create a new scope that is is distinct from the scope in which s2 is defined. Note that the italicized variable names label the variable memory in the illustration and not part of the surrounding C++ code.
Function Return Value
If it is possible to pass a structure into a function as an argument, then it is only reasonable that it should also be possible to return a structure as the return value from a function. Returning a structure is both possible and straightforward, as demonstrated by the following example:
- C++ code that defines a function named "read" that returns a structure. The structure object "temp" is defined in local, function scope, initialized through a series of console read operations, and then returned as the function return value. Once returned, it is stored in s3 with the assignment operator.
- A graphical representation of the return process. Returning an object with the "return statement" in a function copies the local object, "temp" in this example, to the calling scope, where it is stored in s1 .
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C++ Operator Overloading Assignment operator
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The assignment operator is one of the most important operators because it allows you to change the status of a variable.
If you do not overload the assigment operator for your class / struct , it is automatically generated by the compiler: the automatically-generated assignment operator performs a "memberwise assignment", ie by invoking assignment operators on all members, so that one object is copied to the other, a member at time. The assignment operator should be overloaded when the simple memberwise assignment is not suitable for your class / struct , for example if you need to perform a deep copy of an object.
Overloading the assignment operator = is easy, but you should follow some simple steps.
- a self-assignment is a needless copy, so it does not make sense to perform it;
- the next step will not work in the case of a self-assignment.
- Clean the old data. The old data must be replaced with new ones. Now, you can understand the second reason of the previous step: if the content of the object was destroyed, a self-assignment will fail to perform the copy.
- Copy all members. If you overload the assigment operator for your class or your struct , it is not automatically generated by the compiler, so you will need to take charge of copying all members from the other object.
- Return *this . The operator returns by itself by reference, because it allows chaining (i.e. int b = (a = 6) + 4; //b == 10 ).
Note: other is passed by const& , because the object being assigned should not be changed, and passing by reference is faster than by value, and to make sure than operator= doesn't modify it accidentally, it is const .
The assignment operator can only to be overloaded in the class / struct , because the left value of = is always the class / struct itself. Defining it as a free function doesn't have this guarantee, and is disallowed because of that.
When you declare it in the class / struct , the left value is implicitly the class / struct itself, so there is no problem with that.
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All members must be declared within the struct (or class) definition. fly red laptop hp https://www.learncpp.com/cpp-tutorial/introduction-to-structs-members-and-member-selection/ How to: Define move constructors and move assignment … WebAug 2, 2021 · This topic describes how to write a move constructor and a move assignment operator for a C++ class. A move constructor enables the resources owned by an rvalue … greenpeace ark https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/cpp/move-constructors-and-move-assignment-operators-cpp?view=msvc-170 When should we write own Assignment operator in C++? - TAE WebApr 6, 2023 · Conclusion: In summary, a custom assignment operator in C++ can be useful in cases where the default operator is insufficient or when resource management, … https://www.tutorialandexample.com/when-should-we-write-own-assignment-operator-in-cpp

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The assignment operator ( operator= ) is one of the implicitly generated functions for a struct or class in C++.
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For non-union class types (class and struct), the operator performs member-wise copy assignment of the object's bases and non-static members
In C, the only operation that can be applied to struct variables is assignment. Any other operation (e.g. equality check) is not allowed on
C++ programmers create or specify a new structure with the struct keyword, and access the individual data items or fields with one of two selection operators.
For any struct or class, we may sometimes need to use the assignment operator, as in "A = B". There is a default assignment operator provided by C++, but it is
If you do not overload the assigment operator for your class / struct , it is automatically generated by the compiler: the automatically-generated assignment
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