eigen/doc/D07_PassingByValue.dox
Gael Guennebaud 44a527dfa5 * classify and sort the doxygen "related pages"
by tweaking the filename and adding 2 categories:
   Troubleshooting and Advanced
* use the EXCLUDE_SYMBOLS to clean the class list
  (insteaded of a homemade bash script)
* remove the broken "exemple list"
* re-structure the unsupported directory as mentionned in the ML and
  integrate the doc as follow:
  - snippets of the unsupported directory are directly imported from the
    main snippets/CMakefile.txt (no need to duplicate code)
  - add a top level "Unsupported modules" group
  - unsupported modules have to defined their own sub group and nest it
    using \ingroup Unsupported_modules
  - then a pair of //@{ //@} will put everything in the submodule
  - this is just a proposal !
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namespace Eigen {
/** \page PassingByValue Troubleshooting - Passing Eigen objects by value to functions
Passing objects by value is almost always a very bad idea in C++, as this means useless copies, and one should pass them by reference instead.
With Eigen, this is even more important: passing \ref FixedSizeVectorizable "fixed-size vectorizable Eigen objects" by value is not only inefficient, it can be illegal or make your program crash! And the reason is that these Eigen objects have alignment modifiers that aren't respected when they are passed by value.
So for example, a function like this, where v is passed by value:
\code
void my_function(Eigen::Vector2d v);
\endcode
needs to be rewritten as follows, passing v by reference:
\code
void my_function(const Eigen::Vector2d& v);
\endcode
Likewise if you have a class having a Eigen object as member:
\code
struct Foo
{
Eigen::Vector2d v;
};
void my_function(Foo v);
\endcode
This function also needs to be rewritten like this:
\code
void my_function(const Foo& v);
\endcode
Note that on the other hand, there is no problem with functions that return objects by value.
*/
}