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Explain why memberwise assignment can cause problems with a class that contains a pointer member.
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Memberwise assignment is when we copy the members of the first object to the second object using the operator =. Memberwise assignment can cause problems with a class that contains a pointer member because in this case the two instances of the class will contain separate pointers, with both pointers pointing to the same location in memory and therefore an error will occur.
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