Returning a vector of "objects" or floats out of a function

[luckiejacky]

The third-user library, inside of the c file, when I include the vector header, it just doesn't compile because of certain conflict. But I indeed want to retrieve a set of values out of that function, if I use raw pointers, I am not sure when I will forget to clean up and leading to memory leaks, I don't want to save the data off the disk first and read it back.
What is the way to do it?
thanks
Jack

[wolle]

What is the way to do it?

Firstly I would figure out what conflicts make it impossible to include <vector> and then fix that.

Secondly I would assign each of the raw pointers to an std::shared_ptr before storing them in the vector.

Then I can return the vector from the function not having to worry about the pointers. They will be automatically deleted when they go out of scope.