I am trying to init a static array in a function.
int query(int x, int y) {
static int res[100][100]; // need to be initialized to -1
if (res[x][y] == -1) {
res[x][y] = time_consuming_work(x, y);
}
return res[x][y];
}
How can I achieve this?
First of all, I strongly recommend moving from C arrays to std::array
. If you do this you can have a function to perform the initialization (otherwise you can't, as a function cannot return C arrays):
constexpr std::array<std::array<int, 100>, 100> init_query_array()
{
std::array<std::array<int, 100>, 100> r{};
for (auto& line : r)
for (auto& e : line)
e = -1;
return r;
}
int query(int x, int y) {
static std::array<std::array<int, 100>, 100> res = init_query_array();
if (res[x][y] == -1) {
res[x][y] = time_consuming_work(x, y);
}
return res[x][y];
}
Another option, that I actually like more is to perform the init in a lambda:
int query(int x, int y) {
static auto res = [] {
std::array<std::array<int, 100>, 100> r;
for (auto& line : r)
for (auto& e : line)
e = -1;
return r;
}();
if (res[x][y] == -1) {
res[x][y] = time_consuming_work(x, y);
}
return res[x][y];
}
You can't do this. You need an explicit for loop and a flag to avoid initializing more than once:
int query(int x, int y) {
static bool initilized = false;
static int res[100][100]; // need to be initialized to -1
if (!initilized) {
initilized = true;
for (int i = 0; i != 100; ++i) {
for (int j = 0; j != 100; ++j) {
res[i][j] = -1;
}
}
}
if (res[x][y] == -1) {
res[x][y] = time_consuming_work(x, y);
}
return res[x][y];
}
You can do it for example the following way by means of introducing one more static variable
int query(int x, int y) {
static bool initialized;
static int res[100][100]; // need to be initialized to -1
if ( not initialized )
{
for ( auto &row : res )
{
for ( auto &item : row ) item = -1;
}
initialized = true;
}
if (res[x][y] == -1) {
res[x][y] = time_consuming_work(x, y);
}
return res[x][y];
}
You can use fill
with std::array
and a IIL(immediately invoked lambda) :
static std::array<std::array<int, 100>, 100> res = [] () {
std::array<int, 100> default_arr;
default_arr.fill(-1);
std::array<std::array<int, 100>, 100> ret;
ret.fill(default_arr);
return ret;
}();