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    12 <concept id="GUID-D1ADAF9A-62BD-5B68-980F-524FF440FEE1" xml:lang="en"><title>Using

    13 CArrayFixFlat&lt;TAny&gt;</title><shortdesc>The <codeph>CArrayFixFlat&lt;Tany&gt;</codeph> class is useful for

    14 constructing an array of fixed length buffers, where the length is decided

    15 at run time.</shortdesc><prolog><metadata><keywords/></metadata></prolog><conbody>

    16 <section id="GUID-2AD32A65-729E-4C8C-B012-7CF5FC442EFE"><title>Arrays whose type is not known until class instantiation</title> <p>The <codeph>CArrayFixFlat&lt;Tany&gt;</codeph> class

    17 is useful for constructing an array of fixed length buffers, where the length

    18 is decided at run time. It is also useful as a data member of a base class

    19 in a thin template class/base class pair where the type of the array element

    20 is not known until the owning thin template class is instantiated.</p> <p>For

    21 example, to implement a stack of fixed length objects of type <codeph>T</codeph>.</p> <codeblock id="GUID-86CBEBF4-FFE4-565B-A6A3-1BABE564205E" xml:space="preserve">class CExampleBase : public CBase

    22  {

    23 public :

    24  ...

    25 protected :

    26  ...

    27  void  PushL(const TAny* aPtr);

    28  TAny* Pop();

    29 private :

    30  CArrayFixFlat<TAny> iArray;

    31  }</codeblock> <codeblock id="GUID-8A4100C4-280F-5BDC-9C44-908C58C4EA92" xml:space="preserve">template &lt;class T&gt;

    32 class CExample : public CExampleBase

    33  {

    34 public :

    35  ...

    36  inline void PushL(const T* aPtr);

    37  inline T*   Pop();

    38  }</codeblock> </section>

    39 </conbody></concept>