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Re: [Help-gsl] C99 complex support
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Hongzheng Wang |
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Re: [Help-gsl] C99 complex support |
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Sat, 17 Apr 2010 22:16:37 +0800 |
Well, gcc-4.5 has been released. One of the improvements gcc has
achieved is the support for C99's complex data type. According to
http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.5/c99status.html
the support for complex has been `done'.
Hope it can eventually be used in productive codes.
On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 8:39 PM, Hongzheng Wang <address@hidden> wrote:
> 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
> <address@hidden> wrote:
>> 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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