A Fortran binding for the GNU scientific library

Abstract

The GNU scientific library is a collection of numerical routines for scientific computing. This article discusses some aspects of the design of a fully standard-conforming Fortran binding for GSL via incremental usage of Fortran 2003 features, in particular C interoperation. Suggestions are made on how to deal with function dummy arguments and polymorphic C objects of type void*.

References

1. A. Donev, Interoperability with C in Fortran 2003, ACM SIGPLAN Fortran Forum, Vol. 25, issue 1, April 2006.

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