[ARROW-1523] [C++] Add helper data struct with methods for reading a validity bitmap possibly having a non-zero offset

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.8.0
• Component/s: C++
• External issue URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/17540
• Assignee: Wes McKinney
• Reporter: Wes McKinney
• Created: 11/Sep/17 14:29
• Updated: 11/Jan/23 07:15
• Resolved: 28/Sep/17 16:33

Description

We're currently doing this using macros, but having a struct data structure with methods would may have the same performance (we should benchmark!) and more readable code