The C++ codebase I'm working on calls a C API that returns both a pointer to a list of structs and the length of the list. What would be the idiomatic means of processing this list with ranges? Is there an existing adapter or is creating a custom range_facade type the best way of handling this?
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Tim Clemons
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3Please post some code to make your question a bit more clear. – R Sahu Jun 08 '17 at 21:18
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1`view::counted` ? – Jarod42 Jun 08 '17 at 21:19
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2`ranges::span`. – Casey Jun 08 '17 at 21:19
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A [wrapper](https://godbolt.org/g/7JId3W) is simple to write. – DeiDei Jun 08 '17 at 21:36
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[std::mcve](https://stackoverflow.com/help/mcve) should do what you want. – Captain Obvlious Jun 08 '17 at 21:56
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What kind of processing do you want to do? You already have a pointer, just treat it as if it were an array, and let the compiler do the rest of the work for you. What more do you want? – Remy Lebeau Jun 08 '17 at 23:16
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You want to use view::counted(ptr, length) to make a range of length elements starting at ptr.
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