From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Brian Gough <bjg@network-theory.co.uk>
To: Tom Mortimer-Jones <tmj@tcpc3.bham.ac.uk>
Cc: gsl-discuss <gsl-discuss@sources.redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Multidimensional minimization in c++
Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2001 13:20:00 -0000
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Tom Mortimer-Jones writes:
 > Has anyone used the multidimensional minimization routines in gsl within
 > a c++ class?
 > 
 > I would like to include minimization within a class, acting on data
 > contained within the class, but the gsl_multimin_function_fdf requires
 > function (method) addresses which have to be static and static methods
 > cannot work on the non static data within my class instances. Has anyone
 > found a way to work around this problem or am I doing something wrong?

I don't know if there's any special way to handle this elegantly in
C++ generally but with GSL you can always use the void * params
argument of gsl_multimin_function_fdf to pass the necessary
information (e.g. a pointer to self).

regards
Brian Gough