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Using C++ Functors with Legacy C Libraries

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Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2004 (ICCSA 2004)

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The use of functors or function objects in the object oriented programming paradigm has proven to be useful in the design of scientific applications that need to tie functions and their execution context. However, a recurrent problem when using functors is their interaction with the callback mechanism of legacy C libraries. We review some of the solutions to this problem and present the design of a generic adapter that associates a C function pointer with function objects. This makes it possible to use an object-oriented style of programming and still interface with C libraries in a straightforward manner.

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  1. University of Antwerp, BE-2020, Antwerp, Belgium

    Jan Broeckhove & Kurt Vanmechelen

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  1. Department of Chemistry, University of Perugia, Via Elce di Sotto, 8, I-06123, Perugia, Italy

    Antonio Laganá

  2. Department of Computer Science, University of Calgary, 2500 University Drive N.W., T2N 1N4, Calgary, AB, Canada

    Marina L. Gavrilova

  3. William Norris Professor, Head of the Computer Science and Engineering Department, University of Minnesota, USA

    Vipin Kumar

  4. School of Computing, Soongsil University, Seoul, Korea

    Youngsong Mun

  5. OptimaNumerics Ltd., Cathedral House, 23-31 Waring Street, BT1 2DX, Belfast, UK

    C. J. Kenneth Tan

  6. Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Perugia, via Vanvitelli, 1, I-06123, Perugia, Italy

    Osvaldo Gervasi

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Broeckhove, J., Vanmechelen, K. (2004). Using C++ Functors with Legacy C Libraries. In: Laganá, A., Gavrilova, M.L., Kumar, V., Mun, Y., Tan, C.J.K., Gervasi, O. (eds) Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2004. ICCSA 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3046. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-24768-5_55

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