Memory management question

Hi,

I have an interface such as:

module BRUTUS {
	union SRestriction {
		/* lots of variable sized stuff */
	};

	interface SRestrictionContainer {
		readonly attribute SRestriction content; 
	}
};


The get_content() attribute method is defined as:

static BRUTUS_SRestriction *impl_BRUTUS_SRestrictionContainer__get_content(impl_POA_BRUTUS_SRestrictionContainer *servant,
									   CORBA_Environment *ev)
{
        BRUTUS_SRestriction *retval;

        /* ------   insert method code here   ------ */
	retval = &servant->attr_content;
        /* ------ ---------- end ------------ ------ */

        return retval;
}

So my question is now: Should I just return a pointer to attr_content as
I do above or should I make a copy of servant->attr_content ?


Thanks,
  jules