It has already been said many times that (a) std::vector is preferred to c-style arrays, and (b) Arrays, vectors, and other data structures should preferably be passed by reference.
While this is sound advice in the general case, there may come a time when you want to pass a c-style array by value.
This is not simple since arrays decay to pointers on function calls. So, if you have:
int a[] = { 1, 2, 3, 4, 5}; f(a);The actual argument to f() is a pointer to the first element of the array. In order to overcome it, wrap the array in a structure. This technique works both in C and C++, so I’ll demonstrate it without using C++ specific features:
#include &;t;stdio.h>#define SIZE 5typedef struct{ int a[SIZE];} Wrapper;void f(Wrapper w){ int i; for (i = 0; i < SIZE; ++i) w.a[i] = 0;}void main(){ Wrapper w = { { 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 } }; int i; f(w); for (i = 0; i < SIZE; ++i) printf("%d ", w.a[i]); puts("");}
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