Re: [Help-gsl] siman: fixed vs variable configurations

[Brian Gough]

John Gehman writes:
 > I think I worked out the problem -- the memcpy functions in siman.c  
 > will only copy real data, like my `double rmsd`. For my gsl_vector *  
 > values that I'm searching for/optimizing, it copies only the pointer,  
 > and therefore the same value being pointed to are adjusted over and  
 > over, and a real copy is never set aside as a "best".

Yes, that's right - the struct itself is copied, not anything that is
pointed to.

-- 
Brian Gough

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