Shifting/aligning/rotating a circular buffer to zero in-place

Question

I\'m using a circular buffer to push data onto either end of a list. After I\'m done I want to align the buffer so the first element in the list is at position zero and can be u

Answer 1

First of all you should not align the buffer. Looks like an unnecessary overhead.

The tastes way to implement this should be

1) Create a new array
2) Copy elements (std::copy) from n=0 to end of array
3) Copy begining of the array from f=0 to n=6
4) std::swap arrays