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Why reference of an object is needed in defining copy constructor?

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We define copy constructor using
A(const A & obj)

Why reference (&) is needed?
Why we are not allowed to use.

A(const A obj)
posted Jun 7, 2016 by anonymous

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Reference is needed so that we need to access the same instance which the reference is pointing to, otherwise it will create another instance and first of all we need to have const & in the constructor

answer Jun 8, 2016 by Rajendra Stalekar
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