From dfb29b258bb1e406853f3dbe4f046ae1af852d6a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jeff Hill <johill@lanl.gov>
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2009 23:21:37 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] added warning comment about need to unref newly created gdd
 before installing into smart pointer

---
 src/gdd/smartGDDPointer.h | 15 +++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/gdd/smartGDDPointer.h b/src/gdd/smartGDDPointer.h
index 2e14a6bb8..ca835d503 100644
--- a/src/gdd/smartGDDPointer.h
+++ b/src/gdd/smartGDDPointer.h
@@ -20,6 +20,21 @@
 #include "gdd.h"
 #include "shareLib.h"
 
+//
+// !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
+// !! WARNING WARNING WARNING WARNING WARNING WARNING WARNING !!
+// !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
+// // be careful to manually unreference here
+// // (the reference count is initialized to one by the gdd ctor)
+// Gdd * pDD0 = new gdd;
+// smartGDDPointer pDD1 (pDD0);
+// pDD0->unreference ();
+// 
+// // from here on down the smart pointer maintains the ref count
+// smartGDDPointer pDD2 = pDD1;
+// smartGDDPointer pDD3 = pDD2;
+// pDD2 = pDD3;
+//
 template < class T >
 class smartGDDPointerTemplate {
 public: