Conversion Operators in C++

Question

Please help me understand how exactly the conversion operators in C++ work. I have a simple example here which I am trying to understand, though it is not very clear how the

Answer 1

Example exObject = theInt; // implicitly created copy constructor takes place
// object implicitly created from int and then copied
// it is like
Example exObject = Example(theInt);
// so it uses sequence
// Example(int) -> Example(const Example&)
int theInt1 = ctr; // operator int()

If you compiler supports copy constructor optimization and return value optimization you won't notice

Example(const Example&)

execution, but you can declare copy constructor to be private to understand what I am talking about.