Hi Luke, Your "A" class is violating the requirements of what can be used with a std::vector, since it is not really assignable. The compiler is generating an implicit synthetic assignment operator, which does not do the necessary memory management for your non-trivial class's id data member. Add this routine: A& operator = (A const& rhs) { int* temp = new int(rhs.GetValue()); std::swap(id, temp); delete temp; return *this; } And this, to avoid the *(rhs.id) syntax, make the code self-documenting, and test for the NULL id case: int GetValue() const { assert(id != NULL); return *id; } HTH, --Eljay