Can I make a bitwise copy of a C++ object?

Question

Can C++ objects be copied using bitwise copy? I mean using memcopy_s? Is there a scenario in which that can go wrong?

Answer 1

In general if your structure contains pointers, you can't memcpy it because the structure would most likely allocate new memory spaces and point to those. A memcpy can't handle that.

If however your class only has primitive, non-pointer types, you should be able to.