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From: "Stuart O Anderson" <soa@ri.cmu.edu>
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Subject: Adding new Vector/Matrix accessor functions
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I've run into a situation where it would be very convenient to be able
to get pointers to individual elements of GSL vector and matrices.
Currently I deal with this by using matrix and vector views of normal
C arrays.  However, if there were a pair of functions:
double *gsl_vector_get_ptr( gsl_vector *v, int offset )
double *gsl_matrix_get_ptr( gsl_vector *v, int row, int col )

This would make my code cleaner.  Does giving the user pointers to
single elements of the matrix/vector data break anything?

Stuart