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    Most of the time, you won't need to access the underlying data buffer of a vector. However, there are exceptional circumstances under which accessing the raw memory buffer is needed.

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    Most of the time, you won't need to access the underlying data buffer of a vector. However, there are exceptional circumstances under which accessing the raw memory buffer is needed.

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    30 C++ Tips in 30 Days: Tip # 7 Accessing a vector's Internal buffer portably


    Danny Kalev Posted November 25, 2007 Topics: Programming, C/C++

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    Most of the time, you won t need to access the underlying data buffer of a vector. However, there are exceptional circumstances under which accessing the raw memory buffer is needed. Here's how you can do it portably. Suppose you have a vector of int and function that takes int *. To obtain the address of the internal array of the vector vec use the expressions &v[0] or &*v.front(). For example: void f(const int arr[], std::size_t len); int main() { vector <int> vec; //.. fill vec f(&vi[0], vi.size()); } The C++03 Standard guarantees that vector elements shall occupy contiguous memory so the address of the first element is also the address of the entire array. Notice that some implementations also offer a vector::data() member function which returns the address of the internal vector buffer. However, data() isn't portable.

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