Re: [Help-gsl] C99 complex support

[Hongzheng Wang]

Hi,

I have asked almost the same question before.  I believe it is not
possible to replace gsl_complex with C99's complex in the reachable
future.  The most difficulty is that there is still few C compilers
which can support C99's complex reliably.  In fact, even GCC has not
fully implement this data type yet.

On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 11:53 AM, James Service
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> Hi.
>
> I was wondering if there were any plans or an effort underway to include
> support, or an extension, for using the C99 complex number routines
> internally?  Forgive me if I seem ignorant (I've only been using gsl for a
> week and I'm only an undergrad physicist), but it seems that the without the
> burden of the gsl_complex system some existing routines may be easily extended
> to work with complex numbers to provide additional functionality (for example
> the francis algorithm for finding matrix eigenvalues, which I believe extends
> trivially to complex matrices in principle).
>
> If not, how would you recommend I had a crack at it myself?  I've never really
> coded for anyone other than myself before, but it looks possible at least.
>
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> James Service
>
>
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