From 1b270d93b188f4af162106d75c9227b435d3020e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: stdlib-bot <noreply@stdlib.io>
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2023 22:34:29 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Auto-generated commit

---
 CONTRIBUTORS      | 1 +
 array/lib/main.js | 6 ++++--
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/CONTRIBUTORS b/CONTRIBUTORS
index 4da968a6..93c4bdef 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTORS
+++ b/CONTRIBUTORS
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ Athan Reines <kgryte@gmail.com>
 Brendan Graetz <bguiz@users.noreply.github.com>
 Bruno Fenzl <brunofenzl@gmail.com>
 Christopher Dambamuromo <chridam@gmail.com>
+Dan Rose <danoftheroses@gmail.com>
 Dominik Moritz <domoritz@gmail.com>
 Dorrin Sotoudeh <dorrinsotoudeh123@gmail.com>
 Frank Kovacs <fran70kk@gmail.com>
diff --git a/array/lib/main.js b/array/lib/main.js
index 798f774d..8a4496fc 100644
--- a/array/lib/main.js
+++ b/array/lib/main.js
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ var isAllowedCast = require( './../../base/assert/is-allowed-data-type-cast' );
 var createBuffer = require( './../../base/buffer' );
 var getType = require( './../../base/buffer-dtype' );
 var arrayShape = require( '@stdlib/array/shape' );
-var flattenArray = require( '@stdlib/utils/flatten-array' );
+var flatten = require( '@stdlib/array/base/flatten' );
 var format = require( '@stdlib/string/format' );
 var isArrayLikeObject = require( './is_array_like_object.js' );
 var getDefaults = require( './defaults.js' );
@@ -122,6 +122,7 @@ function array() {
 	var ndims;
 	var nopts;
 	var opts;
+	var osh;
 	var len;
 	var ord;
 	var FLG;
@@ -280,6 +281,7 @@ function array() {
 			len = buffer.length;
 		} else if ( opts.flatten && isArray( buffer ) ) {
 			shape = arrayShape( buffer );
+			osh = shape; // cache a reference to the inferred shape
 			ndims = shape.length;
 			len = numel( shape );
 		} else {
@@ -313,7 +315,7 @@ function array() {
 		}
 	} else if ( buffer ) {
 		if ( btype === 'generic' && opts.flatten ) {
-			buffer = flattenArray( buffer );
+			buffer = flatten( buffer, osh || arrayShape( buffer ), false );
 		}
 		if ( buffer.length !== len ) {
 			throw new RangeError( 'invalid arguments. Array shape is incompatible with provided data source. Number of data source elements does not match array shape.' );