Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Comments on "BBN's Proposed extensions for data networking"

[Eric Blossom]

On Thu, Jun 08, 2006 at 02:27:34PM +0100, John Aldridge wrote:
> Michael Dickens wrote:
> >>In reality, it will work with any C++ element for which memcpy is a
> >>valid copy constructor.  This includes many structures and classes,
> >>but not all.
> 
> I.e. those things which the C++ standard calls "POD types" (see section 
> 3.9 paras 2 & 10)?

I don't recall if pointers are POD types, but copying structures
containing pointers could be problematic if there are object
lifetime/ownership conventions that should be observed.

Eric