Since cholmod has specific functions for all the allocation/free tasks
involved in the different data structs, if you're really ambitious, you
could probably create a templated mgr c++ class, where the template args
are the specific memory management functions for the wrapped struct.
Then you could automagically generate ctor/dtor/copyctor/oper= code for
each struct, and access the internal elements through a templated _ptr*
member or something similar, and provide as()/wrap() specializations for
the specific structs you wish to export to R.
On 12/14/2012 10:43 AM, Romain Francois wrote:
I would create a class that contains a pointer to the c struct.
This obviously leaves the problem of freeing the memory, i.e does the c++
object own the pointer.
Maybe a strategy using some reference counting smart pointer.
In RcppEigen we have not resolved this, we simply exposed a free methid for the
class and the programmer has to call it. Not the best strategy perhaps.
You could also prevent copy ctor and assignment op by making them private
without an implementation, and always pass them by reference. Then you can
consider that your c++ object owns the pointer.
Le 14 déc. 2012 à 17:10, Douglas Bates <[email protected]> a écrit :
This is more a C++ question than an Rcpp question although, of course, the
application will be through Rcpp.
I want to use C functions defined in the CHOLMOD package using Rcpp. The
arguments to these functions and the returned values are usually pointers to C
structs. There are several such structs defined in CHOLMOD and it gets tedious
to use code that allocates storage for the struct, populates the struct, uses
it and then frees it. (If you look in the Matrix package sources you will see
several inelegant utility functions and macros to perform these operations).
For an Rcpp/C++ approach I would prefer to use constructors and destructors for
the memory allocation and freeing. Is the recommended approach to create a C++
class or struct that extends the C struct or to create a C++ class with the C
struct as a member of the class?
I should be able to create the code for myself if I just know where to look for examples.
I tried StackOverflow but I was unable to narrow down my search. Pointers to sections
of "C++ Annotations" or to StackOverflow questions would be appreciated.
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