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2.1 An Example Program

The following short program demonstrates the use of the library by computing the value of the Bessel function J_0(x) for x=5,

#include <stdio.h>
#include <gsl/gsl_sf_bessel.h>

int
main (void)
{
  double x = 5.0;
  double y = gsl_sf_bessel_J0 (x);
  printf ("J0(%g) = %.18e\n", x, y);
  return 0;
}

If GSL is installed in its default location, the command to compile this program and link to the necessary libraries is,

$ gcc -Wall example.c -lgsl -lgslcblas -lm

The result of running the program is shown below, and should be correct to double-precision accuracy,

J0(5) = -1.775967713143382920e-01

The compilation and linking procedure may vary on different platforms--full details are given in the following sections.