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+<!-- Copyright (c) 2007-2010 Nokia Corporation and/or its subsidiary(-ies) All rights reserved. -->
+<!-- This component and the accompanying materials are made available under the terms of the License 
+"Eclipse Public License v1.0" which accompanies this distribution, 
+and is available at the URL "http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html". -->
+<!-- Initial Contributors:
+    Nokia Corporation - initial contribution.
+Contributors: 
+-->
+<!DOCTYPE concept
+  PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DITA Concept//EN" "concept.dtd">
+<concept id="GUID-9452D60C-CD3E-570D-885F-F329264AB6F4" xml:lang="en"><title>The
+array buffer</title><shortdesc>Describes the array buffer.</shortdesc><prolog><metadata><keywords/></metadata></prolog><conbody>
+<p>All arrays have an array buffer. The implementation of this buffer and
+the way it is used depend on the specific type of array.</p>
+<p>In fixed length arrays and packed arrays the elements are contained within
+the array buffer itself.</p>
+<p>In variable length arrays each element is contained within its own heap
+cell and the array buffer contains <i>pointers</i> to the elements.</p>
+<p>Logically, an array buffer is linear but, physically, it can be organised
+either as a flat buffer or a segmented buffer.</p>
+<p>In general, you can choose between array classes which use a flat array
+buffer and array classes which use a segmented array buffer. The choice depends
+on how the array is to be used.</p>
+<p>A segmented array buffer is implemented using a <codeph>CBufSeg</codeph> object.</p>
+<p>A flat array buffer is implemented either:</p>
+<ul>
+<li id="GUID-F3E43492-AE56-5290-863D-15ED57DFCC6F"><p>directly by the array
+as a piece of linear memory.</p> </li>
+</ul>
+<p>or</p>
+<ul>
+<li id="GUID-B7472961-5E2C-5ECA-864C-7B1FD547FD5F"><p>using a <codeph>CBufFlat</codeph> object.</p> </li>
+</ul>
+<p>The first has a simple and efficient implementation but has some restrictions
+on the size of an array element and is limited to holding fixed length elements.
+The second is a more general implementation but is only limited by the memory
+available.</p>
+<section id="GUID-72E6EC4A-DE51-44A9-A83D-16C3E33874E1"><title>See also</title> <p><xref href="GUID-112AAFA5-B4C9-5B62-A106-FB5097C13A0E.dita">Using
+Dynamic Buffers</xref> </p> </section>
+</conbody></concept>
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