Re: [Bug-gsl] #include <*.c>

[Brian Gough]

At Thu, 20 Sep 2007 14:57:49 +0200,
Naor Jonathan wrote:
> I wanted to ask why these are not .h files, and to suggest changing
> the suffix to something other than .c. After I made such a change
> the whole library compiled effortlessly.

Hello,

The convention for this project has been that .h files contain
declarations and macros, while .c files contain actual code.  

> Some packages allow the user to supply his/her own memory allocation
> function instead of malloc. Sometimes this is done by giving a
> pointer to such a function. I wanted to suggest replacing every
> malloc in the code with another function, say gsl_malloc, which
> could then be changed by the user. By default this function could
> just be a wrapper for the default malloc.

I have considered this in the past but decided against it.  The same
effect can be achieved using the GNU linker --wrap option, and this
allows wrapping of any function not just malloc.

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best regards,
 
Brian Gough