How to cheaply assign C-style array to std::vector?

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The current std::vector doesn’t provide any capability or interface to take ownership of previously allocated storage. Presumably it would be too easy to pass a stack address in by accident, allowing more problems than it solved.

If you want to avoid copying into a vector, you’ll either need to use vectors through your entire call chain, or do it the C way with float[] the entire time. You can’t mix them. You can guaranteed that &vec[0] will be equivalent to the C-array though, fully contiguous, so using vector in the whole program may be feasible.

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