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/*****************************************************************

 * Functions to help treat arrays in a uniform manner.  These were

 * inspired by a thread on comp.lang.c++.moderated, started by Dietmar

 * Kuehl and contributed to by the rest of the entire planet.

 *

 * beginof (x), endof (x), lengthof (x) now accompany sizeof, where x

 * can be either a container (currently only sequences) or a builtin

 * array (/not/ a pointer).  The beginof/endof are intended for use in

 * the algorithms library, and lengthof is a "sizing" function.

 *

 * Note example:

 *       char  an_array [17];

 *       cerr << lengthof(an_array) << endl;

 * produces assembly code of

 *       mov 17,register0

 *       call ofstream_put

 * i.e., the template function inlining really does work; g++

 * requires -O3 (or -finline-functions) before it does this, though.

 *

 * pedwards 13Nov98

*/

// beginof

template 

  inline typename vector::iterator beginof (vector &v)

  { return v.begin(); }

template 

  inline T* beginof (T (&array)[sz]) { return array; }

// endof

template 

  inline typename vector::iterator endof (vector &v)

  { return v.end(); }

template 

  inline T* endof (T (&array)[sz]) { return array + sz; }

// lengthof

template 

  inline typename vector::size_type lengthof (vector &v)

  { return v.size(); }

template 

  inline unsigned int lengthof (T (&)[sz]) { return sz; }