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PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DITA Concept//EN" "concept.dtd"> |
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<concept id="GUID-82862A69-5E86-5924-BFF0-F7655FCBFAF0" xml:lang="en"><title>Contiguousness</title><shortdesc>Description of contiguous data in flat and segmented buffers.</shortdesc><prolog><metadata><keywords/></metadata></prolog><conbody> |
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<p>In flat buffers, all data is contiguous. The <codeph>Ptr()</codeph> function always returns a pointer descriptor from the buffer position |
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specified to the end of the data, and the <codeph>BackPtr()</codeph> function always returns a pointer descriptor from the beginning |
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of the buffer to the buffer position specified.</p> |
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<p>In segmented buffers, data is contained in segments and the maximum |
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length of contiguous data is the granularity of the buffer. The extent |
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of contiguous data contained in a segment may vary between a single |
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byte, and the granularity, if the insertion and deletion pattern is |
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arbitrary.</p> |
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<p>However, the following guarantee is made: if the number of bytes |
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inserted or deleted in <i>all</i> insertion and deletion operations |
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is a multiple of some number <i>n</i>, and the granularity is also |
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a multiple of this number <i>n</i>, then all data extents will be |
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a multiple of <i>n</i> in length. This implies that the <codeph>Ptr()</codeph> function, given a buffer position which is a multiple of <i>n</i>, will always return a pointer descriptor referring to at least <i>n</i> bytes.</p> |
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<p>This property of segmented descriptors is exploited by the <codeph>CArrayFixBase</codeph>, <codeph>CArrayVarBase</codeph> and <codeph>CArrayPakBase</codeph> derived array classes. In these classes, all |
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insertion or deletion operations are always done in terms of the (fixed) |
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length of data stored in the buffer. Therefore, the data for an individual |
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array element is always contiguous.</p> |
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</conbody><related-links> |
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<link href="GUID-2F64B579-73D3-548A-9104-16483AF77BCB.dita"> |
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<linktext>Dynamic Arrays</linktext></link> |
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</related-links></concept> |