From 1eff721f091f37777f3c8c645bf2b62cd2518c80 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Paul Licameli <paul.licameli@audacityteam.org>
Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2016 00:46:48 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Define some useful type aliases for arrays of floats and
 doubles

---
 src/MemoryX.h      | 12 +++++++++++-
 src/SampleFormat.h |  7 +++++++
 2 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/MemoryX.h b/src/MemoryX.h
index f60eea480..205555cf8 100644
--- a/src/MemoryX.h
+++ b/src/MemoryX.h
@@ -513,7 +513,17 @@ public:
       return *this;
    }
 
-   using ArrayOf<ArrayOf<X>>::reinit;
+   template< typename Integral >
+   void reinit(Integral count)
+   {
+      ArrayOf<ArrayOf<X>>::reinit( count );
+   }
+
+   template< typename Integral >
+   void reinit(Integral count, bool initialize)
+   {
+      ArrayOf<ArrayOf<X>>::reinit( count, initialize );
+   }
 
    template<typename Integral1, typename Integral2 >
    void reinit(Integral1 countN, Integral2 countM, bool initialize = false)
diff --git a/src/SampleFormat.h b/src/SampleFormat.h
index 67f312fec..f41d881d0 100644
--- a/src/SampleFormat.h
+++ b/src/SampleFormat.h
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@
 #define __AUDACITY_SAMPLE_FORMAT__
 
 #include "Audacity.h"
+#include "MemoryX.h"
 #include <wx/defs.h>
 
 #include "audacity/Types.h"
@@ -151,4 +152,10 @@ void      ReverseSamples(samplePtr buffer, sampleFormat format,
 
 void      InitDitherers();
 
+// These are so commonly done for processing samples in floating point form in memory,
+// let's have abbeviations.
+using Floats = ArrayOf<float>;
+using FloatBuffers = ArraysOf<float>;
+using Doubles = ArrayOf<double>;
+
 #endif