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cannam@167:Readers from the Fortran world are used to arrays stored in cannam@167: column-major order (sometimes called “Fortran order”). This is cannam@167: essentially the exact opposite of row-major order in that, here, the cannam@167: first dimension’s index varies most quickly. cannam@167:
cannam@167:If you have an array stored in column-major order and wish to
cannam@167: transform it using FFTW, it is quite easy to do. When creating the
cannam@167: plan, simply pass the dimensions of the array to the planner in
cannam@167: reverse order. For example, if your array is a rank three
cannam@167: N x M x L matrix in column-major order, you should pass the
cannam@167: dimensions of the array as if it were an L x M x N matrix
cannam@167: (which it is, from the perspective of FFTW). This is done for you
cannam@167: automatically by the FFTW legacy-Fortran interface
cannam@167: (see Calling FFTW from Legacy Fortran), but you must do it
cannam@167: manually with the modern Fortran interface (see Reversing array dimensions).
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