From: Per Sandberg <per.s.sandberg@bahnhof.se>
Subject: Re: How to access an array using two different indexing schemes
Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2017 19:37:39 +0100
Date: 2017-11-24T19:37:39+01:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <UFZRB.123959$WQ.68351@fx10.am4> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d8c0ce45-97ad-4475-b3f9-1662a875a576@googlegroups.com>
Hi a reflection.
Why the different indexing ?
/P
Den 2017-11-24 kl. 12:42, skrev Jerry:
> I want to access an array such as Real_Vector (built-in for Ada >= 2005) with two different indexing schemes. For example, I would access a Real_Vector indexed (0 .. 4) when thinking of it as a times series and the same data indexed (1 .. 5) when thinking of it as a vector. Another application would be a vector indexed (-128 .. 127) because it fits my problem domain, perhaps a spatial variable, but I need to index it as (0 .. 255) when thinking of doing a Fast Fourier Transform on it.
>
> I could declare two arrays such as
>
> x : Real_Vector(0 .. 4);
> y : Real_Vector(1 .. 5);
>
> Ada then allows the assignments
>
> y := x;
> and
> x := y;
>
> but this has two problems. First, I have wasted memory and cycles by declaring y and copying x into it. Second, I would then have a kind of version control problem where every time I modified one, I have to copy it to the other.
>
> I have the notion that I should be able to accomplish this using pointers but I can’t seem to crack how do to this. I’ve tried all sorts of things and am resigned to doing the above duplication if I have to. (My arrays can be _much_ larger so the overhead might be significant. They might also be two-dimensional, as in Real_Matrix or Complex_Matrix.)
>
> I'm currently looking at System.Address_To_Access_Conversions but I thought I would query the list in the meantime.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks,
> Jerry
>
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Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-11-24 11:42 How to access an array using two different indexing schemes Jerry
2017-11-24 12:33 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2017-11-24 15:52 ` AdaMagica
2017-11-24 22:25 ` Jerry
2017-11-25 13:57 ` AdaMagica
2017-11-24 22:23 ` Jerry
2017-11-25 15:39 ` Robin
2017-11-25 20:58 ` Jerry
2017-11-26 10:22 ` Robin
2017-11-28 21:57 ` G. B.
2017-11-24 17:37 ` A. Cervetti
2017-11-24 21:48 ` Jerry
2017-11-24 22:15 ` Robert A Duff
2017-11-24 23:38 ` Jerry
2017-11-26 1:07 ` Jerry
2017-11-26 8:58 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2017-11-26 10:31 ` Jerry
2017-11-28 1:31 ` Randy Brukardt
2017-11-28 1:25 ` Randy Brukardt
2017-11-29 4:57 ` Jerry
2017-11-29 15:01 ` AdaMagica
2017-11-29 15:21 ` AdaMagica
2017-11-30 5:32 ` Jerry
2017-11-30 5:30 ` Jerry
2017-11-29 15:03 ` AdaMagica
2017-11-29 20:53 ` Randy Brukardt
2017-11-29 16:03 ` Shark8
2017-11-29 17:04 ` AdaMagica
2017-11-29 20:56 ` Randy Brukardt
2017-11-30 5:56 ` Jerry
2017-11-30 11:11 ` AdaMagica
2017-11-30 11:40 ` AdaMagica
2017-11-30 14:47 ` Niklas Holsti
2017-11-30 17:30 ` AdaMagica
2017-11-30 19:31 ` G. B.
2017-11-30 19:43 ` Shark8
2017-11-30 22:10 ` Randy Brukardt
2017-11-30 21:57 ` Randy Brukardt
2017-11-30 22:49 ` Jerry
2017-11-30 23:00 ` Jerry
2017-11-30 21:50 ` Randy Brukardt
2017-11-30 23:13 ` Jerry
2017-11-24 18:37 ` Per Sandberg [this message]
2017-11-24 21:28 ` Jerry
2017-11-24 21:40 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2017-11-28 1:33 ` Randy Brukardt
2017-11-24 22:12 ` Robert A Duff
2017-11-28 1:39 ` Randy Brukardt
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