Re: Proposal for non-malloc versions of block, vector, matrix functions

[Martin Quinson <Martin dot Quinson at ens-lyon dot fr>]

On Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 03:45:36PM +0000, Brian Gough wrote:
> William Brower writes:
>  > An example where we find it useful though is in some thread
>  > that is called 10 times a second which would need to call
>  > gsl_matrix_alloc. Instead, we would call it once in an initialization
>  > function, and then use the matrix_noalloc_from_mem function in the
>  > thread workhorse and pass to it the pointer from the malloc.
>  > 
>  > We use GSL version 0.6 (or principle reason for not upgrading
>  > to version 0.7 and beyond is the maintenace of these new
>  > functions). Our question is: would you entertain the idea
>  > of adding functions such as these to the GSL repository?
> 
> Yes, that sounds reasonable.  If it is just a question of adding the
> function as in the email then that is pretty straightforward and I can
> do that.  If you have other functions feel free to send me a patch.  I
> will probably want to change the function names to use an "_array"
> suffix which I had in mind for this type of function.  

Well, I may not understand, but I would have choosen _realloc as suffix
name...

bye, Mt.