158 lines
		
	
	
		
			7.5 KiB
		
	
	
	
		
			HTML
		
	
	
	
	
	
			
		
		
	
	
			158 lines
		
	
	
		
			7.5 KiB
		
	
	
	
		
			HTML
		
	
	
	
	
	
| <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
 | |
| <html>
 | |
| <!-- This manual is for FFTW
 | |
| (version 3.3.10, 10 December 2020).
 | |
| 
 | |
| Copyright (C) 2003 Matteo Frigo.
 | |
| 
 | |
| Copyright (C) 2003 Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
 | |
| 
 | |
| Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of this
 | |
| manual provided the copyright notice and this permission notice are
 | |
| preserved on all copies.
 | |
| 
 | |
| Permission is granted to copy and distribute modified versions of this
 | |
| manual under the conditions for verbatim copying, provided that the
 | |
| entire resulting derived work is distributed under the terms of a
 | |
| permission notice identical to this one.
 | |
| 
 | |
| Permission is granted to copy and distribute translations of this manual
 | |
| into another language, under the above conditions for modified versions,
 | |
| except that this permission notice may be stated in a translation
 | |
| approved by the Free Software Foundation. -->
 | |
| <!-- Created by GNU Texinfo 6.7, http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/ -->
 | |
| <head>
 | |
| <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
 | |
| <title>Allocating aligned memory in Fortran (FFTW 3.3.10)</title>
 | |
| 
 | |
| <meta name="description" content="Allocating aligned memory in Fortran (FFTW 3.3.10)">
 | |
| <meta name="keywords" content="Allocating aligned memory in Fortran (FFTW 3.3.10)">
 | |
| <meta name="resource-type" content="document">
 | |
| <meta name="distribution" content="global">
 | |
| <meta name="Generator" content="makeinfo">
 | |
| <link href="index.html" rel="start" title="Top">
 | |
| <link href="Concept-Index.html" rel="index" title="Concept Index">
 | |
| <link href="index.html#SEC_Contents" rel="contents" title="Table of Contents">
 | |
| <link href="Calling-FFTW-from-Modern-Fortran.html" rel="up" title="Calling FFTW from Modern Fortran">
 | |
| <link href="Accessing-the-wisdom-API-from-Fortran.html" rel="next" title="Accessing the wisdom API from Fortran">
 | |
| <link href="Plan-execution-in-Fortran.html" rel="prev" title="Plan execution in Fortran">
 | |
| <style type="text/css">
 | |
| <!--
 | |
| a.summary-letter {text-decoration: none}
 | |
| blockquote.indentedblock {margin-right: 0em}
 | |
| div.display {margin-left: 3.2em}
 | |
| div.example {margin-left: 3.2em}
 | |
| div.lisp {margin-left: 3.2em}
 | |
| kbd {font-style: oblique}
 | |
| pre.display {font-family: inherit}
 | |
| pre.format {font-family: inherit}
 | |
| pre.menu-comment {font-family: serif}
 | |
| pre.menu-preformatted {font-family: serif}
 | |
| span.nolinebreak {white-space: nowrap}
 | |
| span.roman {font-family: initial; font-weight: normal}
 | |
| span.sansserif {font-family: sans-serif; font-weight: normal}
 | |
| ul.no-bullet {list-style: none}
 | |
| -->
 | |
| </style>
 | |
| 
 | |
| 
 | |
| </head>
 | |
| 
 | |
| <body lang="en">
 | |
| <span id="Allocating-aligned-memory-in-Fortran"></span><div class="header">
 | |
| <p>
 | |
| Next: <a href="Accessing-the-wisdom-API-from-Fortran.html" accesskey="n" rel="next">Accessing the wisdom API from Fortran</a>, Previous: <a href="Plan-execution-in-Fortran.html" accesskey="p" rel="prev">Plan execution in Fortran</a>, Up: <a href="Calling-FFTW-from-Modern-Fortran.html" accesskey="u" rel="up">Calling FFTW from Modern Fortran</a>   [<a href="index.html#SEC_Contents" title="Table of contents" rel="contents">Contents</a>][<a href="Concept-Index.html" title="Index" rel="index">Index</a>]</p>
 | |
| </div>
 | |
| <hr>
 | |
| <span id="Allocating-aligned-memory-in-Fortran-1"></span><h3 class="section">7.5 Allocating aligned memory in Fortran</h3>
 | |
| 
 | |
| <span id="index-alignment-5"></span>
 | |
| <span id="index-fftw_005falloc_005freal-5"></span>
 | |
| <span id="index-fftw_005falloc_005fcomplex-5"></span>
 | |
| <p>In order to obtain maximum performance in FFTW, you should store your
 | |
| data in arrays that have been specially aligned in memory (see <a href="SIMD-alignment-and-fftw_005fmalloc.html">SIMD alignment and fftw_malloc</a>).  Enforcing alignment also permits you to
 | |
| safely use the new-array execute functions (see <a href="New_002darray-Execute-Functions.html">New-array Execute Functions</a>) to apply a given plan to more than one pair of in/out
 | |
| arrays.  Unfortunately, standard Fortran arrays do <em>not</em> provide
 | |
| any alignment guarantees.  The <em>only</em> way to allocate aligned
 | |
| memory in standard Fortran is to allocate it with an external C
 | |
| function, like the <code>fftw_alloc_real</code> and
 | |
| <code>fftw_alloc_complex</code> functions.  Fortunately, Fortran 2003 provides
 | |
| a simple way to associate such allocated memory with a standard Fortran
 | |
| array pointer that you can then use normally.
 | |
| </p>
 | |
| <p>We therefore recommend allocating all your input/output arrays using
 | |
| the following technique:
 | |
| </p>
 | |
| <ol>
 | |
| <li> Declare a <code>pointer</code>, <code>arr</code>, to your array of the desired type
 | |
| and dimensions.  For example, <code>real(C_DOUBLE), pointer :: a(:,:)</code>
 | |
| for a 2d real array, or <code>complex(C_DOUBLE_COMPLEX), pointer ::
 | |
| a(:,:,:)</code> for a 3d complex array.
 | |
| 
 | |
| </li><li> The number of elements to allocate must be an
 | |
| <code>integer(C_SIZE_T)</code>.  You can either declare a variable of this
 | |
| type, e.g. <code>integer(C_SIZE_T) :: sz</code>, to store the number of
 | |
| elements to allocate, or you can use the <code>int(..., C_SIZE_T)</code>
 | |
| intrinsic function. e.g. set <code>sz = L * M * N</code> or use
 | |
| <code>int(L * M * N, C_SIZE_T)</code> for an L × M × N
 | |
|  array.
 | |
| 
 | |
| </li><li> Declare a <code>type(C_PTR) :: p</code> to hold the return value from
 | |
| FFTW’s allocation routine.  Set <code>p = fftw_alloc_real(sz)</code> for a real array, or <code>p = fftw_alloc_complex(sz)</code> for a complex array.
 | |
| 
 | |
| </li><li> <span id="index-c_005ff_005fpointer-2"></span>
 | |
| Associate your pointer <code>arr</code> with the allocated memory <code>p</code>
 | |
| using the standard <code>c_f_pointer</code> subroutine: <code>call
 | |
| c_f_pointer(p, arr, [...dimensions...])</code>, where
 | |
| <code>[...dimensions...])</code> are an array of the dimensions of the array
 | |
| (in the usual Fortran order). e.g. <code>call c_f_pointer(p, arr,
 | |
| [L,M,N])</code> for an L × M × N
 | |
|  array.  (Alternatively, you can
 | |
| omit the dimensions argument if you specified the shape explicitly
 | |
| when declaring <code>arr</code>.)  You can now use <code>arr</code> as a usual
 | |
| multidimensional array.
 | |
| 
 | |
| </li><li> When you are done using the array, deallocate the memory by <code>call
 | |
| fftw_free(p)</code> on <code>p</code>.
 | |
| 
 | |
| </li></ol>
 | |
| 
 | |
| <p>For example, here is how we would allocate an L × M
 | |
|  2d real array:
 | |
| </p>
 | |
| <div class="example">
 | |
| <pre class="example">  real(C_DOUBLE), pointer :: arr(:,:)
 | |
|   type(C_PTR) :: p
 | |
|   p = fftw_alloc_real(int(L * M, C_SIZE_T))
 | |
|   call c_f_pointer(p, arr, [L,M])
 | |
|   <em>...use arr and arr(i,j) as usual...</em>
 | |
|   call fftw_free(p)
 | |
| </pre></div>
 | |
| 
 | |
| <p>and here is an L × M × N
 | |
|  3d complex array:
 | |
| </p>
 | |
| <div class="example">
 | |
| <pre class="example">  complex(C_DOUBLE_COMPLEX), pointer :: arr(:,:,:)
 | |
|   type(C_PTR) :: p
 | |
|   p = fftw_alloc_complex(int(L * M * N, C_SIZE_T))
 | |
|   call c_f_pointer(p, arr, [L,M,N])
 | |
|   <em>...use arr and arr(i,j,k) as usual...</em>
 | |
|   call fftw_free(p)
 | |
| </pre></div>
 | |
| 
 | |
| <p>See <a href="Reversing-array-dimensions.html">Reversing array dimensions</a> for an example allocating a
 | |
| single array and associating both real and complex array pointers with
 | |
| it, for in-place real-to-complex transforms.
 | |
| </p>
 | |
| <hr>
 | |
| <div class="header">
 | |
| <p>
 | |
| Next: <a href="Accessing-the-wisdom-API-from-Fortran.html" accesskey="n" rel="next">Accessing the wisdom API from Fortran</a>, Previous: <a href="Plan-execution-in-Fortran.html" accesskey="p" rel="prev">Plan execution in Fortran</a>, Up: <a href="Calling-FFTW-from-Modern-Fortran.html" accesskey="u" rel="up">Calling FFTW from Modern Fortran</a>   [<a href="index.html#SEC_Contents" title="Table of contents" rel="contents">Contents</a>][<a href="Concept-Index.html" title="Index" rel="index">Index</a>]</p>
 | |
| </div>
 | |
| 
 | |
| 
 | |
| 
 | |
| </body>
 | |
| </html>
 | 
