On 2010-01-02 00:32-0800 David MacMahon wrote:

> It seems that PLplot can be built and installed using single
> precision floats (libplplotf.*) and/or double precision floats
> (libplplotd.*), but it seems like any one executable should not link
> to both of these libraries.  In other words, if one wants to plot
> both single and double precision data, it seems like one type of data
> (preferably the one with less points) will need to be converted to
> the other and the program linked with the suitable plplotX library.
>
> Is that true

Yes.

> or is there an easier way to plot a mix of single and
> double precision data in plplot?

No.

Furthermore, I would suggest you use the default (double precision) build
(with appropriate casts of that part of your data that is single-precision
to double precision) since the default build is the one that has the most
consistent testing.

Alan
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Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy,
University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca).

Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation
for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software
package (plplot.org); the libLASi project (unifont.org/lasi); the Loads of
Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project
(lbproject.sf.net).
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