Thank you for helping me understand.

Mike

On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 8:39 AM, Simen kjaeraas <simen.kjaras@gmail.com> wrote:
Michael Stover <michael.r.stover@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

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Simen