Re: Code generation with an octave interface

[John W. Eaton]

On 18-Nov-2008, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote:

| 2008/11/18 Jaroslav Hajek <address@hidden>:
| > Many numeric classes in Octave, in particular everything derived from
| > Array<T> (such as the Matrix class), are actually pointers to
| > reference-counted data, using copy-on-write mechanism, so that a
| > read-only copy is always cheap.
| 
| Btw, this reminded me... I have tried digging around the Octave
| source, and maybe I just haven't tried hard enough, but I still get
| really lost there. So now I ask...
| 
| Is there a document somewhere that outlines in the broadest meaningful
| strokes possible, how the Octave source is laid out? I know there have
| been requests and talks before of documenting the code before, and I
| know how much work that is, but I don't want any kind of detail, just
| a rough, "visitor's guide", shall we say.
| 
| I've run Doxgyen through Octave in an effort to better visualise
| what's going on, but I still get lost. :-(

What are you confused about?  It is much easier to answer specific
questions.  Plus, if you ask specific questions about what you don't
understand, then we don't waste time describing things that you
already do understand.

jwe