Sorry, I obviously misunderstood your original question :( On 28/11/2002 03:46 Stephen Crowley wrote:

What do you mean by "just use it as" ?

For example.. I have a matrix<double> m(5,5);

In some code I actually need to use it as a 5x5 matrix.. but other parts must reference it as a vector (to pass to another library).

Currently I am doing something like this

matrix<double> m(5,5); // do stuff to m vector<double> v(25); v.data() = m.data(); // pass v to library // get results back m.data() = v.data();

This is obviously not optimal.. and if both m.data() and v.data() pointed to the same location in memory the problem would be solved.

I suppose I might be able to get around it by making my own storage class that allows you to specify a location and size instead of allocating one itself.

--Stephen

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