Add core:slice.size to get the byte size of a slice's backing data

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/core/slice/slice.odin b/core/slice/slice.odin
index cd12a8c70..c31edf281 100644
--- a/core/slice/slice.odin
+++ b/core/slice/slice.odin
@@ -471,6 +471,12 @@ is_empty :: proc(a: $T/[]$E) -> bool {
 	return len(a) == 0
 }
 
+// Gets the byte size of the backing data
+@(require_results)
+size :: proc "contextless" (a: $T/[]$E) -> int {
+	return len(a) * size_of(E)
+}
+
 
 
 @(require_results)