call

Arguments

"ident"

string.

xi

real matrix or string

pxi, pyi

integers

txi, tyi

character string "d", "r", "i" or "c".

Description

Interactive call of Fortran (or C) user program from Scilab. The routine must be previously linked with Scilab. This link may be done:

• with Scilab "link" command (dynamical linking) during the Scilab session.(see link)

  On Windows, C functions must use cdecl calling convention name (see options in your C compiler(default calling convention for x86 C compilers)).

There are two forms of calling syntax, a short one and a long one. The short one will give faster code and an easier calling syntax but one has to write a small (C or Fortran) interface in order to make the short form possible. The long one make it possible to call a Fortran routine (or a C one) without modification of the code but the syntax is more complex and the interpreted code slower.

The meaning of each parameter is described now:

"ident"

is the name of the called subroutine.

x1,...,xn

are input variables (real matrices or strings) sent to the routine,

px1,...,pxn

are the respective positions of these variables in the calling sequence of the routine "ident" and

tx1,...,txn

are their types ("r", "i", "d" and "c" for real (float) , integer, double precision and strings)

"out"

is a keyword used to separate input variables from output variables. when this key word is present it is assumed that the long form will be used and when it is not present, the short form is used.

[ny1, my1]

are the size (# of rows and columns. For 'c' arguments,m1*n1 is the number of characters ) of output variables and

py1, ...

are the positions of output variables (possibly equal to pxi ) in the syntax of the routine. The pyi's integers must be in increasing order.

"ty1", ...

are the Fortran types of output variables. The k first output variables are put in y1,..., yk.

If an output variable coincides with an input variable (i.e. pyi=pxj ) one can pass only its position pyi . The size and type of yi are then the same as those of xi. If an output variable coincides with an input variable and one specify the dimensions of the output variable [myl,nyl] must follow the compatibility condition mxk*nxk >= myl*nyl.

Examples

Example #1 with a simple code in C language:

if haveacompiler() then
    oldDir = pwd();
    Dir = fullfile(TMPDIR, "call");
    mkdir(Dir); cd(Dir)
    f1 = [
    '#include <math.h>'
    'void fooc(double c[],double a[],double *b,int *m,int *n)'
    '{'
    '   int i;'
    '   for ( i =0 ; i < (*m)*(*n) ; i++) '
    '     c[i] = sin(a[i]) + *b; '
    '}'];

    mputl(f1, "fooc.c");

    // Creating the shared library: Generates a gateway, a Makefile and a loader
    ilib_for_link('fooc', "fooc.c", [], "c")

    // load the shared library
    exec loader.sce

    // use the new primitive
    a = [1,2,3;4,5,6];
    b =  %pi;
    [m,n] = size(a);

    // Inputs:
    // a is in position 2 and double
    // b                3     double
    // n                4     integer
    // m                5     integer
    // Outputs:
    // c is in position 1 and double with size [m,n]
    c = call("fooc",a,2,"d",b,3,"d",m,4,"i",n,5,"i","out",[m,n],1,"d")

    cd(oldDir);
    dir(Dir)
end

Example 2 with a simple code in Fortran:

if haveacompiler() then
    oldDir = pwd();
    Dir = fullfile(TMPDIR, "call");
    mkdir(Dir); cd(Dir)
    f1 = ['      subroutine foof(c,a,b,n,m)'
    '      integer n,m'
    '      double precision a(*),b,c(*)'
    '      do 10 i=1,m*n '
    '        c(i) = sin(a(i))+b'
    '   10 continue'
    '      end'];
    mputl(f1,'foof.f')

    //creating the shared library (a gateway, a Makefile and a loader are
    //generated.

    ilib_for_link('foof','foof.f',[],"f")

    // load the shared library
    exec loader.sce

    // use the new primitive
    a = [1,2,3;4,5,6];
    b =  %pi;
    [m,n] = size(a);
    c = call("foof",a,2,"d",b,3,"d",m,4,"i",n,5,"i","out",[m,n],1,"d")
    cd(oldDir);
    dir(Dir)
end

See also

• link — dynamic linker
• c_link — check if symbol loaded with dynamic link
• addinter — new functions interface dynamic link at run time.