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Re: gsl Development Query
- To: edwin at netwood dot net
- Subject: Re: gsl Development Query
- From: Eleftherios Gkioulekas <lf at amath dot washington dot edu>
- Date: Sat, 2 Sep 2000 00:15:49 -0700
- CC: gsl-discuss at sources dot redhat dot com
>>
>> > It may not be reasonable to make an interface to FFTW
>> > and keep the other interfaces in your library coherent.
>>
>> My feeling is that, in this case, it won't be hard.
>> Similarly, it would not be hard to use
>> an underlying fortran implementation for the BLAS library.
>> All you have to do
>> is specify an appropriate middle layer in each case.
>
>Maybe. Maybe not. You can never be sure that
>you will have compatible Fortran and C compilers
>on any given platform.
>You might need to write an interface in assembler
>to call Fortran subroutines from a C program.
You may check that with Autoconf. At worst, you can fall into f2c as
a last-resort backup.
-lf.