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- verview.
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- his is a C++ class for simple fixed arrays with arbitrary integer
- ower and upper bounds and index range checking. Simple design and
- mplementation was a major development goal. The array class uses
- ssertions to check various error conditions, including index
- ut-of-range and failed memory allocation. Failed assertions cause
- rogram termination, and possibly a core dump.
-
- he element type must have a default constructor (a constructor that
- akes no arguments) or be of a type that does not need a constructor,
- uch as, integers and other built-in types. It must also be possible
- o assign to the element type, and to destroy elements.
-
- would be grateful for any comments and/or suggestions. Please
- -mail to dag@control.lth.se.
-
- ompilation.
-
- his is a template class, so it requires a compiler which can handle
- uch beasts, for example, AT&T version 3.0. Minor changes may be
- eeded to compile it with g++ (not tested).
-
- aveats.
-
- he copy-constructor of the array should use the copy-constructor of the
- lement type to initialize its elements. Unfortunately, the obvious
- olution does not seem to compile with cfront 3.0.1, so I have chosen
- o explicitly outlaw copy-construction of arrays, rather than
- roviding a copy-constructor with the wrong semantics. More
- nformation is available in a separate file, COPYNOTE.
-
- he current version is moderately robust. It will for example break
- own if you allocate arrays where the number of elements is >MAXINT,
- r if the total allocated space overflows a size_t.
-
- t is also worth pointing out that Array<T>::size() returns the number
- f elements, not the total size of the storage occupied by the array.
-
- uthor.
-
- ag Bruck, Department of Automatic Control, Lund Institute of
- echnology, Box 188, S-221 00 Lund, Sweden. E-mail: dag@control.lth.se
-
- cknowledgements.
-
- would like to thank Tom Cargill and John Skaller for comments on the
- riginal version. The current version, and even more so, the next
- ersion, benefits from feedback from actual and potential users..
-