Trying to assign vector of Base* from vector of Derived*

Question

This seems like a pretty basic problem, but I can\'t figure it out. I have a std::vector of raw pointers to Derived objects, and I just want to copy it to anot

Answer 1

push_back performs element-wise conversions. The assignment operator exists only between vectors of the same type.

An easy solution is to use assign:

v2.assign(v1.begin(), v1.end());