Using flat arrays as 2D arrays
suggest changeOften the easiest solution is simply to pass 2D and higher arrays around as flat memory.
/* create 2D array with dimensions determined at runtime */ double *matrix = malloc(width * height * sizeof(double)); /* initialise it (for the sake of illustration we want 1.0 on the diagonal) */ int x, y; for (y = 0; y < height; y++) { for (x = 0; x < width; x++) { if (x == y) matrix[y * width + x] = 1.0; else matrix[y * width + x] = 0.0; } } /* pass it to a subroutine */ manipulate_matrix(matrix, width, height); /* do something with the matrix, e.g. scale by 2 */ void manipulate_matrix(double *matrix, int width, int height) { int x, y; for (y = 0; y < height; y++) { for (x = 0; x < width; x++) { matrix[y * width + x] *= 2.0; } } }
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