C++_CALLS_C
C++ Main Program Calls C Functions

C++_CALLS_C is a directory of C++ programs which illustrates how a C++ program can call a C function.

For this example, the KRONROD package is used. Note that the KRONROD library is available in C++ and in C, so this example is not created out of necessity (the C++ main program could have simply called the C++ version of KRONROD). Instead, it is intended as an example of how to do this when you have to (you don't have a C++ version of the routines you want to use.)

When calling a C function from a C++ function, there are some simple things that may be enough to guarantee success.

• the C++ code should declare interfaces to the C functions using the "extern C" qualifier, as in

  extern "C" 
  {
    void kronrod ( int n, double eps, double x[], double w1[], double w2[] );
    void timestamp ( );
  }
            

Licensing:

The computer code and data files described and made available on this web page are distributed under the GNU LGPL license.

Languages:

C++_CALLS_C is available in a C++ version and a FORTRAN77 version and a FORTRAN90 version and a MATLAB version.

Related Data and Programs:

C++_CALLS_F77, C++ programs which call a FORTRAN77 subroutine.

C++_CALLS_F90, C++ programs which call a FORTRAN90 subroutine.

KRONROD, a C library which can compute a Gauss and Gauss-Kronrod pair of quadrature rules of arbitrary order, by Robert Piessens, Maria Branders.

KRONROD, a C++ library which can compute a Gauss and Gauss-Kronrod pair of quadrature rules of arbitrary order, by Robert Piessens, Maria Branders.

MIXED, C++ programs which call a function written in another programming language.

Source Code:

KRONROD is the C source code for the KRONROD library. It should be essentially unchanged from the standard version.

• kronrod.c, the source code;
• kronrod.h, the include file;

KRONROD_PRB is the C++ source code for the main program. Some changes have been made from the standard version in order to adjust for the fact that we are calling a FORTRAN77 subroutine.

• kronrod_prb.cpp;

Examples and Tests:

• kronrod_prb.sh, commands to compile, link, load and run the program;
• kronrod_prb_output.txt, the output file;

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