Edernity wrote:
> ...

Another AI happily plowing through usenet using new boots to shine the
DSP proc which can be bought from the website mentioned in the previous
post that sometimes shows up illegally when you want to read which new
message has happened today while i programmed my program ...

MB wrote:
> the FFTW3 manual advises to use:
> reinterpret_cast<fftw_complex*>( complex<double> variable  )

No, it doesn't.  It advises using that reinterpret_cast for a
complex<double>* variable, not a complex<double> variable.  There is a
big difference.

The reason you are having problems is that, since fftw_complex in FFTW3
is an array double[2] (which was chosen to force it to be binary
compatible with the C99 complex types and with C++ complex types), you
cannot simply use a=b assignments for fftw_complex variables a and b.
C (and C++) don't allow assignments of whole arrays, except in the
sense of pointers.

Something that should work is listed below.

Cordially,
Steven G. Johnson

PS. Followups should go to comp.lang.c++, since this is a C++ question,
not a DSP question.

#include <complex>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <fftw3.h>
using namespace std;

int main(void)
{
  complex<double> a(2.0,3.0);
  fftw_complex *test;

  test = reinterpret_cast<fftw_complex*>(&a);

  printf("a = %g%+gi\n", real(a), imag(a));
  printf("test = %g%+gi\n", test[0][0], test[0][1]);

  return 0;
}

Hi everybody

I'm trying to adopt the new interface in FFTW3  (it's 3.1 now)
to my routine written in C++ (I am using VC++ 7.0)

I have used earlier versions of FFTW in C programs, and everything was fine.
The problem with the new interface is fftw_complex appears to be totally
incompatible with complex<T> template class, infact it seems incompatible
with anything and I am unable to cast anything on it.

I would understand, if fftw_complex occured to be a vector (double[2]) or
a struct, but it's apparently not. The IntelliSense feature of VC++ shows that
fftw_complex is equivalent to just a single double type (???), yet the compiler
does not allow to substitute a double value to a variable of that type. I am really
confused, and have no idea what is going on.

a code snippet:

#include <complex>
#include <fftw3.h>
using namespace std;

...

complex<double> a = (2.0,3.0);
fftw_complex test;

test = (fftw_complex)a;

generates a compiler error:
error C2440: 'type cast' : cannot convert from 'std::complex<double>' to 'fftw_complex'
No user-defined-conversion operator available that can perform this conversion, or the operator cannot be called


the FFTW3 manual advises to use:
reinterpret_cast<fftw_complex*>( complex<double> variable  )

due to temporal incompatibility between complex type in C and the complex class in C++

but it still doesn't work! I am getting the same errors over and over again


help!

MB