Re: [Boost-users] [multi_array] deduce logical shape of "parent" multi_array from view

The question is, is there an (elegant) way to reconstruct the shape of the original array just from the multi_array_view.

I don't believe so, but I could be very wrong. I think you could play some evil pointer games in the case where your views have some fixed number of slow-index dimensions less than the parent array. Very evil games.

It turns out that when I try to save a multi_array_view, with strides and offsets, etc. HD5F still needs to know the logical size (shape) of the parent array (the one that has contiguous elements in memory).

I know it's not as pretty, but is there any reason you can't pass the HDF API both the parent multi_array and either the view or the slicing information required to create the view? - Rhys