Re: [Help-gsl] example of linear fitting does not release dinamical memory!

[Brian Gough]

Anton Kulchitsky writes:
 > There are 3 calls of gsl_vector_alloc and gsl_matrix_alloc. However, 
 > there are no calls of gsl_vector_free and gsl_matrix_free. Why there are 
 > no needs for this?

As you probably know, memory is automatically freed when a program
exits so it is not essential to use a free at the end of main().

 > PS. I have another question. Do authors plan to include some PDE work 
 > into the library? I have my own rather comprehensive and good tested 
 > code for hyperbolic equations (different one-step finite volume methods 
 > from upwind to FCT and TVD schemes, 2D+time and 1D+time). That could be 
 > adopted for GSL. And some simple code for parabolic equations (1D+time 
 > and 2D+time). I also could write and test some code for elliptic 
 > equations (something lile the code presented in Numerical Recepies 
 > library and maybe for complex numbers). I could work on it (during this 
 > year, this is a necessary part of my current project) and submit the 
 > code and docs (all I need for my documentation is verify my terrible 
 > English). Do you need it? Do you have any docs for programmers (like GSL 
 > programming guide or so)?

See the "GSL Design Document" at http://sources.redhat.com/gsl/
which discusses PDEs.

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Brian Gough
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