[c++] How to clone object in C++ ? Or Is there another solution?

I wrote a Stack and Queue implementation (Linked List based). There is one stack (bigStack). For example, I separate bigStack (example: stackA and stackB). I pop() a node from bigStack, I push() in stackA. In the same way, I push() in stackB. I want bigStack to not change. Therefore I want to clone the bigStack object. How do I clone objects in C++? Or is there another solution to my problem?

class Stack : public List {
public:
   Stack() {}
   Stack(const Stack& rhs) {}
   Stack& operator=(const Stack& rhs) {};
    ~Stack() {}

    int Top() {
        if (head == NULL) {
            cout << "Error: The stack is empty." << endl;
            return -1;
        } else {
            return head->nosu;
        }
    }

    void Push(int nosu, string adi, string soyadi, string bolumu) {
        InsertNode(0, nosu, adi, soyadi, bolumu);
    }

    int Pop() {
        if (head == NULL) {
            cout << "Error: The stack is empty." << endl;
            return -1;
        } else {
            int val = head->nosu;
            DeleteNode(val);
            return val;
        }
    }

    void DisplayStack(void);

};

then...

Stack copyStack = veriYapilariDersi;
copyStack.DisplayStack();

In C++ copying the object means cloning. There is no any special cloning in the language.

As the standard suggests, after copying you should have 2 identical copies of the same object.

There are 2 types of copying: copy constructor when you create object on a non initialized space and copy operator where you need to release the old state of the object (that is expected to be valid) before setting the new state.

If your object is not polymorphic (and a stack implementation likely isn't), then as per other answers here, what you want is the copy constructor. Please note that there are differences between copy construction and assignment in C++; if you want both behaviors (and the default versions don't fit your needs), you'll have to implement both functions.

If your object is polymorphic, then slicing can be an issue and you might need to jump through some extra hoops to do proper copying. Sometimes people use as virtual method called clone() as a helper for polymorphic copying.

Finally, note that getting copying and assignment right, if you need to replace the default versions, is actually quite difficult. It is usually better to set up your objects (via RAII) in such a way that the default versions of copy/assign do what you want them to do. I highly recommend you look at Meyer's Effective C++, especially at items 10,11,12.