Editing Stride of an array (section)

===Overlapping parallel arrays===
Some languages allow [[AoS_and_SoA#Array of structures|arrays of structures]] to be treated as overlapping [[parallel array]]s with non-unit stride:

<syntaxhighlight lang="c">
#include <stdio.h>

struct MyRecord {
    int value;
    char *text;
};

/** Print the contents of an array of ints with the given stride.
    Note that size_t is the correct type, as int can overflow. */
void print_some_ints(const int *arr, int length, size_t stride)
{
    int i;
    printf("Address\t\tValue\n");
    for (i=0; i < length; ++i) {
        printf("%p\t%d\n", arr, arr[0]);
        arr = (int *)((unsigned char *)arr + stride);
    }
}

int main(void)
{
    int ints[100] = {0};
    struct MyRecord records[100] = {0};

    print_some_ints(&ints[0], 100, sizeof ints[0]);
    print_some_ints(&records[0].value, 100, sizeof records[0]);
    return 0;
}
</syntaxhighlight>

This idiom is a form of [[type punning]].