From dd77b4ec70a4afe21b91fec72273afa55b4087ad Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: John Wellbelove <john.wellbelove@asterconsulting.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2021 12:15:14 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] First experiments

---
 include/etl/array.h | 9 +++++++++
 test/test_array.cpp | 9 +++++++++
 2 files changed, 18 insertions(+)

diff --git a/include/etl/array.h b/include/etl/array.h
index 5d26874d..584a69bc 100644
--- a/include/etl/array.h
+++ b/include/etl/array.h
@@ -561,6 +561,15 @@ namespace etl
       -> array<etl::enable_if_t<(etl::is_same_v<T, Ts> && ...), T>, 1U + sizeof...(Ts)>;
 #endif  
 
+#if ETL_CPP11_SUPPORTED
+  template <typename... T>
+  constexpr auto make_array(T&&... t)
+    -> etl::array<std::common_type_t<T...>, sizeof...(T)>
+  {
+    return { { etl::forward<T>(t)... } };
+  }
+#endif
+
   //*************************************************************************
   /// Overloaded swap for etl::array<T, SIZE>
   ///\param lhs The first array.
diff --git a/test/test_array.cpp b/test/test_array.cpp
index 6e803bd9..ca4fd04d 100644
--- a/test/test_array.cpp
+++ b/test/test_array.cpp
@@ -644,5 +644,14 @@ namespace
       CHECK(data     >= data);
       CHECK(!(lesser >= data));
     }
+
+    //*************************************************************************
+    TEST(test_make_array)
+    {
+      auto data = etl::make_array(0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9);
+
+      CHECK_EQUAL(5, data[5]);
+    }
+
   };
 }