Re: C-pointers from Mathematica
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- Subject: [mg112985] Re: C-pointers from Mathematica
- From: Daniel Lichtblau <danl at wolfram.com>
- Date: Sat, 9 Oct 2010 06:35:07 -0400 (EDT)
Bruno Silva wrote: > Dear all, > > I want to use Mathematica to transform a nonlinear PDE to its equivalent > finite difference expression under a particular discretization scheme, and > finally export the result to a C source file. > I manage to do the first part of the job but the problem arrives when > translating Mathematica variable to C-program pointers. > > I want to transform T[x] -> * (profile + i), meaning that the value of "T" > at point "x" (inside Mathematica) is equivalent to the "i-th" value in > pointer "profile" (inside file.c). > Because Mathematica doesn't allow me to use the C-pointer sign * that way, I > thought replacing T[x] by a string would solve the problem ( > T[x]->"*(profile+i)" ) but this does not work because, as soon as I apply > CForm to the result, the string symbol "..." is kept inside the expression I > would like to write in file.c : > > T[x]/.T[x] -> "*(profile+i)" > CForm[%] > > Does anyone know how to overcome this difficulty? > Thanks in advance, > Bruno Could work around via explicit array reference. In[220]:= CForm[T[x] /. T[x] -> profile[i - 1]] Out[220]//CForm= profile(-1 + i) Alternatively, could do: SetAttributes[pointer, HoldAll] CForm[T[x] /. T[x] -> pointer[(profile + i)]] and in a C header file define a macro for this notation: #define pointer (*(a)) Daniel Lichtblau Wolfram Research