http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=51538
--- Comment #4 from Jonathan Wakely <redi at gcc dot gnu.org> 2011-12-14 02:02:04 UTC --- (In reply to comment #3) > > const FOOwrapper & operator=(const FOOwrapper & othr) > > { > > memcpy(&m_uidl, &othr.m_uidl, sizeof(FOO)); > > return *this; > > } > > This assignment operator is unnecessary, the implicit one would do the same > thing. Actually the implicit assignment would be safe against self-assignment, but this isn't because memcpy cannot be called with overlapping regions. This results in more undefined behaviour: FOO f = { } ; FOOwrapper w(&f); w = w;