Re: a mathlink question
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- Subject: [mg89658] Re: a mathlink question
- From: GS <vokaputs at gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2008 06:42:29 -0400 (EDT)
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Thanks to everybody who answered my question. After posting it, I found an example counter.c in the mathlink examples directory of the Mathematica installation which does exactly what I need. The trick is to define a global variable, and then its value is preserved between the subsequent calls from Mathematica (as correctly pointed out by Szabolcs Horv=E1t in his reply). GS. On Jun 15, 3:16 am, GS <vokap... at gmail.com> wrote: > I would like to call a C-program from Mathematica. All the examples in > the MathLink tutorials (like AddTwo[i,j]) work like this: they are > called from Mathematica, are executed, send the result to Mathematica > and exit. > > I would like a C-program to not exit after the execution, and keep the > memory of the previous inputs. Say, I want an external C-program, to > be called as AddToPreviousSum[x]. When it is first called, it returns > x. When it is called the second time AddToPreviousSum[y], it returns x > +y. When it is called the third time AddToPreviousSum[z], it returns x > +y+z, and so on. > > How do I implement this in C using MathLink? > > Thanks. > GS.