Theory and Modelling Resources Cookbook

Starlink Cookbook 13.2
Norman Gray
2 December 2001. Release 2-5. Last updated 10 March 2003

Central Laboratory of the Research Councils
Particle Physics & Astronomy Research Council

Starlink Project

Copyright 1999, 2001--2003, Central Laboratories for the Research Councils

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Contents

• Abstract
• 1. Introduction
  • 1. Call for contributions
• 2. Computing
  • 1. Unix guides
  • 2. Editors
  • 3. Numerical analysis
    • 1. Numerical Recipes
    • 2. Floating point representation
      • 1. Endianness of floating-point numbers
      • 2. Accuracy
      • 3. Other floating-point topics
  • 4. Programming languages
    • 1. Fortran 77
    • 2. Fortran 90/95
    • 3. C
    • 4. C++ and object orientation
    • 5. Java
    • 6. Other languages
      • 1. awk and sed
      • 2. Perl
  • 5. Code topics
    • 1. Profiling
    • 2. Optimization
      • 1. Avoid using the register keyword in C
      • 2. Walk through arrays in the correct order
      • 3. I/O
      • 4. Use NaN and Infinity
      • 5. Remove debugging options
      • 6. Choose a fast compiler
      • 7. Further reading
    • 3. Debugging
    • 4. Intermixing Fortran and C
      • 1. Arrays
      • 2. Strings
      • 3. Compiling and linking
    • 5. Compilers, and other stray remarks on code
  • 6. Link farms
    • 1. Unix documentation and standards
• 3. Theory support
  • 1. Computer algebra
  • 2. Data visualisation
    • 1. gnuplot
    • 2. IDL
    • 3. DX
    • 4. PGPLOT
  • 3. Producing images
• 4. Astrophysical and other libraries
  • 1. Astrophysical modelling codes
  • 2. General-purpose and numerical libraries
    • 1. Reading and writing data
  • 3. Link farms
• 5. Paper production
  • 1. TeX and LaTeX
  • 2. The LANL archive
• 6. General astronomical and astrophysical resources
  • 1. Observations
• 7. Acknowledgements
• Appendices
  • A. Example programs
    • 1. islittlendian.c
    • 2. fpp.c
    • 3. fpdemo.c
    • 4. Profiling
      • 1. p1.f
      • 2. p2.f
      • 3. p3.f
    • 5. crash.c
    • 6. Mixed language programming
      • 1. mixed-c.c
      • 2. mixed-f.f
    • 7. maple.ms
    • 8. idl-functions.pro
  • B. References: Starlink documents
  • C. Release notes
    • 1. Release 2.2
    • 2. Release 2.1
    • 3. Version 2
    • 4. Release 1.2
• Backmatter
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Changes
  • ID index