Re: C-pointers from Mathematica
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg113045] Re: C-pointers from Mathematica
- From: Daniel Lichtblau <danl at wolfram.com>
- Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2010 04:24:59 -0400 (EDT)
Daniel Lichtblau wrote: > 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 What a mess. No guarantees I'll get any of it correct this time, but let me try again. For the first approach, the code below is probably the same as that from a response by Albert Retey. In[3]:= Quiet[CForm[T[x] /. T[x] -> profile[[i-1]]]] Out[3]//CForm= profile[-1 + i] For adding a macro to a header file, this version might work. #define pointer(a) (*(a)) Daniel Lichtblau Wolfram Research