namespace Eigen { /** \eigenManualPage TopicPassingByValue 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 TopicFixedSizeVectorizable "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. For example, a function like this, where \c v is passed by value: \code void my_function(Eigen::Vector2d v); \endcode needs to be rewritten as follows, passing \c v by const reference: \code void my_function(const Eigen::Vector2d& v); \endcode Likewise if you have a class having an %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. */ }