Re: Array Initialisation

[Jaroslav Hajek]

On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 10:53 AM, Paul Keir <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi,
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> When using the Octave C++ libs, is it possible to initialise an array with a
> POD array which is already allocated?
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> Perhaps something like:
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> double data[W*H];
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> Array2<double> a(data,W,H);
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> Or maybe:
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> Array2<double> b(W,H);
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> b.set(data,W*H);
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> I guess that might interfere with the reference counting in ArrayRep?
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> Many thanks,
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> Paul
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If what you mean is to avoid a copy, then no; this is not possible;
yes, the reason is memory management. Copying a raw data to an array
can be done through fortran_vec.



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