Thank you for helping me understand.
Mike
On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 8:39 AM, Simen kjaeraas <simen.kja...@gmail.com>wrote:
> Michael Stover <michael.r.sto...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I am under the impression that passing a pointer to a static function (ie,
>> passing a pointer to a memory address that contains the starting point of
>> a
>> function) is not the same as defining a method that can be called by name
>> from C code. I am not a C expert though.
>>
>
> Well, yes and no. Given
>
>
> extern( C ) returnType myFunc( /* args */ ) {}
>
> You still have no function pointer to it. That is however easy to procure:
>
> someCfunctionThatExpectsAfnPointer( &myFunc );
>
> It could be that there is some hidden detail of C static functions that I
> don't know, but i believe this works.
>
>
>
> Can one call fortran libraries from D? Ie, say one wanted to use LAPACK
>> from D?
>>
>
> http://dsource.org/projects/scid uses LAPACK, so I guess it is possible.
>
>
> Also, know of any mathematical libraries written in D (like
>> implementations
>> of runge-kutta, linear algebra routines and data structures, optimization
>> or
>> curve-fitting algorithms)?
>>
>
> At least some of this has been mentioned time and time again on the
> newsgroup, you should be able to find it by searching.
>
> From dsource.org/projects:
>
> http://dsource.org/projects/scid
> http://dsource.org/projects/dstats
>
> --
> Simen
>
