Passing a C++ complex array to C

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The C++0x standard went to lengths to guarantee that such conversions will work (§26.4):

Moreover, if a is an expression of type cv std::complex<T>* and the expression a[i] is well-defined for an integer expression i, then:

— reinterpret_cast<cv T*>(a)[2*i] shall designate the real part of a[i], and

— reinterpret_cast<cv T*>(a)[2*i + 1] shall designate the imaginary part of a[i].

and (§23.3.6):

The elements of a vector are stored contiguously, meaning that if v is a vector<T, Allocator> where T is some type other than bool, then it obeys the identity &v[n] == &v[0] + n for all 0 <= n < v.size().

The layout of the complex value is not guaranteed by the prevailing C++03 standard (though the vector layout is), but I would be surprised to find an implementation for which it does not hold.

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