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submitted 7 months ago by lysdexic@programming.dev to c/cpp@programming.dev

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[–] WolfLink@lemmy.ml 4 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Tbh if you aren’t already using someone else’s array implementation that includes length information, just write your own simple wrapper e.g.

struct MyArrayWrapper { int *data; int length; }

[–] clyne@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 7 months ago

At that point I would just use std::span if you can, then you also get the standard container/iterator interfaces for free.

[–] xep@fedia.io 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

The article did mention that that's what you'd probably have to do.

I have only one pointer (for example, if you created an array using new)

In most cases, it's necessary to rewrite the program a bit and add an array size passing. Sadly, that's how it works.