Pavel Vozenilek wrote: > "Jan Gaspar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> I think, I changed mind. The flatten() method can be substituted by >> something like this: >> >> void doSomething(const int* pInt, size_t numInts); // C API >> circular_buffer<int> intBuffer(10); >> ... > // >> fill the buffer somehow >> vector<int> v(intBuffer.begin(), intBuffer.end()); // copy >> if (!v.empty()) doSomething(&v[0], v.size()); // pass the >> data to > the API >> >> // &v[0] < &v[1] < ... < &v[n] >> >> I think, we should rather keep the interface minimal. >> > Yes but flatten() may be much more efficient, in some cases it may > involve less or no copying at all and memory consumption won't be > size() + capacity().
I suggest T * circular_buffer<T>::data(); Postcondition: The elements of *this are now in the range [ r, r + size() ), where r is the return value. Non-const operations on *this (except data()) may invalidate r. _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe & other changes: http://lists.boost.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/boost
