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<h4 class="subsection">3.2.3 Fixed-size Arrays in C</h4>
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A multi-dimensional array whose size is declared at compile time in C
is <em>already</em> in row-major order. You don't have to do anything
special to transform it. For example:
<pre class="example"> {
fftw_complex data[N0][N1][N2];
fftw_plan plan;
...
plan = fftw_plan_dft_3d(N0, N1, N2, &data[0][0][0], &data[0][0][0],
FFTW_FORWARD, FFTW_ESTIMATE);
...
}
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<p>This will plan a 3d in-place transform of size <code>N0 x N1 x N2</code>.
Notice how we took the address of the zero-th element to pass to the
planner (we could also have used a typecast).
<p>However, we tend to <em>discourage</em> users from declaring their
arrays in this way, for two reasons. First, this allocates the array
on the stack (“automatic” storage), which has a very limited size on
most operating systems (declaring an array with more than a few
thousand elements will often cause a crash). (You can get around this
limitation on many systems by declaring the array as
<code>static</code> and/or global, but that has its own drawbacks.)
Second, it may not optimally align the array for use with a SIMD
FFTW (see <a href="SIMD-alignment-and-fftw_005fmalloc.html#SIMD-alignment-and-fftw_005fmalloc">SIMD alignment and fftw_malloc</a>). Instead, we recommend
using <code>fftw_malloc</code>, as described below.
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