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non-determinism and segmentation faults, hence it is worth spending the
non-determinism and segmentation faults, hence it is worth spending the
time to understand all the different options in the table above.
time to understand all the different options in the table above.
.. warning::
It is worth highlighting one common issue where a method (e.g. a getter)
returns a reference (or pointer) to the first attribute of a class. In this
pybind11 tries to eliminate duplicate addresses by returning the same reference object.
case, the class and attribute will be located at the same address in
If two addresses are the same, though they do not point to the same object semantically,
memory, which pybind11 will recongnize and return the parent instance
this may cause unexpected behaviour. An explicit policy should be used instead of
instead of creating a new Python object that represents the attribute.
relying on `automatic`.
Here, the :enum:`return_value_policy::reference_internal` policy should be
A common example is a reference to the first member of a class which has the same memory
used rather than relying on the automatic one.
location as its owning class.
.. note::
.. note::
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