[Insight-developers] Returning a smart pointer or a pointer?

[Hauke Heibel]

Hi Luis and Tom,

How about deprecated warnings? I have a small sample which worked with 
gcc 3.4.4, VS cl.exe 14.00 and Intel C++ compiler 9.1. I admit that 
there might be problems with other compilers since I am not sure if that 
declspec belongs to the standard. I saw that there also exists a 
deprecated attribute 
(http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-3.3.1/gcc/Function-Attributes.html#Function%20Attributes).

Regards,
Hauke

Here is the sample:
----------------------------
class Foo
{
public:
  __declspec(deprecated) void GetDeformationFieldRawPointer(){}
};

int main(int argc, char*argv[])
{
  Foo f;
  f.GetDeformationFieldRawPointer();
  return 0;
}
----------------------------

Tom Vercauteren wrote:
> Hi Luis,
>
> Thanks for the changes!
>
> As far as encouraging people to use the raw pointer function, I don't
> see a better solution than documenting it as you did.
>
> Tom
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