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Generate C formatted string

Use only in the MuPAD Notebook Interface.

This functionality does not run in MATLAB.


generate::C(e, <NoWarning>)


generate::C(e) generates C code for the MuPAD® expression e.

generate::C returns a C formatted string representing an expression, equation, list of equations or a matrix.

An equation represents an assignment in C code. The type of the assignment is double.

When generating C code for a matrix, the generator assigns only nonzero elements. See Example 3.

To print an output string to a file, use the fprint function. Use the printing option Unquoted to remove quotation marks and to expand special characters like line breaks and tabs.

Use the generate::optimize function to optimize the MuPAD code before converting it to C code. See Example 5.

The NoWarning option lets you suppress warnings. See Example 6.


Example 1

The code generator converts a list of equations to a sequence of assignments:

generate::C([x1 = y2^2*(y1 + sin(z)), x2 = tan(x1^4)]):
print(Unquoted, %)
  x1 = (y2*y2)*(y1+sin(z));
  x2 = tan(x1*x1*x1*x1);

Example 2

MuPAD matrix and array indexing differs from C array indexing. By default, MuPAD array indices start with 1, and C array indices start with 0. To create the code compatible with the default indexing in C, the generate::C function decrements each index by one:

A:= matrix([[1,2],[3,4]]):
  generate::C(hold(Determinante = A[1,1]*A[2,2] - A[1,2]*A[2,1])):
print(Unquoted, %)
  A[0][0] = 1.0;
  A[0][1] = 2.0;
  A[1][0] = 3.0;
  A[1][1] = 4.0;


Example 3

Generated C code does not include assignments for zero elements of a matrix:

print(Unquoted, generate::C(A))
  A[0][0] = 1.0;
  A[1][2] = 1.0;

Example 4

If the first index of an array is not 1, the generate::C function issues a warning:

A:= array(1..2, 2..3, [[1,2],[3,4]]):
print(Unquoted, generate::C(A))
Warning: The array index 'A[1..2, 2..3]' is out of range 1..n. [DOM_ARRAY::CF]
  A[0][1] = 1.0;
  A[0][2] = 2.0;
  A[1][1] = 3.0;
  A[1][2] = 4.0;

Example 5

The generate::C function does not optimize your code:

      generate::C([x = a + b, y = (a + b)^2])):
  x = a+b;
  y = pow(a+b,2.0);

You can use the generate::optimize function before converting your MuPAD expression to C code. For example, this function can reduce the number of operations by finding common subexpressions:

  x = a+b;
  y = x*x;

Example 6

By default, the generate::C function can issue warnings:

print(Unquoted, generate::C(f(x)))
Warning: Function "f" is not verified to be a valid C function.
  t0 = f(x);

If you started using generate::C recently, the warnings can help you identify the potential issues in the converted code. If you want to suppress warnings, use the NoWarning option:

print(Unquoted, generate::C(f(x), NoWarning))
  t0 = f(x);



An expression, equation, list of equations, or a matrix



Suppress warnings.

Return Values

generate::C returns a string containing C code.

See Also

MuPAD Functions

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