Auton C Documentation

• Organization of Auton software
• Information about damut libraries, conversion from amut, and using damutfast optimized library
• DAMUT : Basic Auton utilities library
  • ambs : The very most basic utilities.
  • amdm : Fairly large functionality library for vector and matrix operations. Uses dynamic memory implementation with its own (amma) memory management.
  • amgr : Simple line-and-circle-and-string graphics interface. The bare minimum you need to efficiently draw simple graphics. Designed for quick portability to non-X-windows systems (a sunview implementation also exists, a Windows one should be written soon!).
  • amar : Obvious operations on 1-d arrays.
  • amiv : Integer Dynamic vectors (ivecs) and string_arrays.
  • amma : Our own memory allocation and deallocation.
  • ammarep : Contains one function am_malloc_report(void) which explains current am_malloc( ) situation.
  • amut : Bundles together the basic amXX.h header files
  • drac : DRAwing Contours (one variable graphs and two-variable contours).
  • explain : Simple text generator.
  • geom : Data structures and algorithms for 2-d computational geometry.
  • heap : Heaps and Priority Queues
  • minteg : Cached cumulative density functions for fast statistics.
  • ongr : Some simple one-variable graph-drawing.
  • rgrs : The simplest kind of linear regression. This is fine, but the amdm stuff is so convenient these days, you may be better off just computing the normal equations beta = (X^T X)^(-1) X^T Y directly.
  • standard : Includer of standard libraries. Also where we define things like DIRSEP, the directory separation string (for Unix, it's "/"; for DOS it's "\" etc..)
• GUI : Auton's HTML interface, its Graphical User Interface, and dtvalues : dynamically typed values.
  • aform : This set of library routines provides a very simple interface for the programmer to specify a "form" for the user to fill in. It has reasonably convenient routines for constructing the form (represented by the imaginitively named "aform" structure, and for interpreting the results of the user's input.

    It handles (as of now) the following datatypes of form fields: int bool double (called "real" in all this code) string and dyv (dynamic vectors).

    It hides the form implementation. Currently a plain text and html form implementation exist. See below for how to let the compiler choose which to use. A X-windows Motif version may be in the works.

  • ht : A simple simple library of hypertext page creation programs. The current hypertext system being used is Netscape and html, but this is hidden.
• LAD : Learning Algorithm Descriptors: An experiment in making the description of learning algorithms a first-class object in Autonomous Machine Learning.