[MOAB-dev] Discussion on return type of MOAB routines

[Jed Brown]

"Tim Tautges (ANL)" <tautges at mcs.anl.gov> writes:
> Finally, as I've said before, the size of these objects being returned will be small except in non-success conditions, 

What does this mean?  The caller has to know the size of the object
being returned.  It looks like you are returning objects rather than
pointers, so the object has to be completely defined.  It could contain
pointers to "more", but then that "more" would have to be allocated
somewhere on the heap so that it is accessible from parent scopes.
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