Feature Request: Being able to get the pointer to a specific array element

It'd be great if we could get the native pointer to a specific array element from a NativeArray<T>, something like:

Code (csharp):

1.  
2.  public unsafe void* GetReadOnlyElementPointer(int index) {
3.   CheckElementReadAccess(index);
4.   return (void*)((byte*)m_Buffer + index * sizeof(T));
5. }
6.  

I can always add it myself of course, but would be cool to have it as a default, maybe this is too low level to add to the public API... could be made into an extension method somewhere?

 

There are some public API to get the first element's pointer. Maybe you could write a wrapper on it to accept index.

Code (CSharp):

1. using Unity.Collections.LowLevel.Unsafe;

Code (CSharp):

1. NativeArray<int> na = new NativeArray<int>(10, Allocator.Persistent);
2. void* ptr = NativeArrayUnsafeUtility.GetUnsafeReadOnlyPtr(na);
3. void* ptr2 = NativeArrayUnsafeUtility.GetUnsafePtr(na);

 

What about Read/WriteArrayElement from UnsafeUtility?

Code (CSharp):

1.  
2. var array = new NativeArray<int>(10, Allocator.Temp);
3. var value = UnsafeUtility.ReadArrayElement<int>(array.GetUnsafePtr(), 5);
4.