Deep copy method

SystemVerilog
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In reply to Manoj J:

The first method is really a “construct a copy”, normally called the “clone” method.

The second method is a true copy from the object being passed as an argument to copy() to the implicit ‘this’ argument that copy was called on.

class A;
  int al;
  function A clone();
    clone = new();
    clone.copy(this);
  endfunction
  function void copy(A ab);
    this.a=ab.a;
  endfunction
endclass

And deep copy refers to copying classes that contains other class variables.