nag_opt_sparse_mps_free (e04myc) should be used in conjunction with nag_opt_sparse_mps_read (e04mzc), which reads data for a sparse linear or quadratic programming problem from an MPSX file, allocates several arrays, and initializes them with the data contained in the file. nag_opt_sparse_mps_free (e04myc) is a utility provided for the convenient freeing of this memory. It should be called in order to conserve memory which is no longer required, e.g., following a call to nag_opt_sparse_convex_qp (e04nkc) (which may be used to solve the problem defined by the MPSX file). Any memory not freed will, of course, be freed when your program terminates.

nag_opt_sparse_mps_free (e04myc) can be used to free a subset of the allocated arrays by passing null pointers for those arguments which you do not wish to free.

4 References

None.

5 Arguments

1: $a$ – double **Input/Output: On entry: the nonzeros of the sparse constraint matrix $A$ , to be freed. If a or *a is a null pointer, no action is taken.

On exit: if a is not null, *a is set to the null pointer.
2: $ha$ – Integer **Input/Output: On entry: the row indices of the nonzero elements stored in a, to be freed. If ha or *ha is a null pointer, no action is taken.

On exit: if ha is not null, *ha is set to the null pointer.
3: $ka$ – Integer **Input/Output: On entry: the indices indicating the beginning of each column of $A$ , to be freed. If ka or *ka is a null pointer, no action is taken.

On exit: if ka is not null, *ka is set to the null pointer.
4: $bl$ – double **Input/Output: On entry: the lower bounds of the problem variables and general constraints, to be freed. If bl or *bl is a null pointer, no action is taken.

On exit: if bl is not null, *bl is set to the null pointer.
5: $bu$ – double **Input/Output: On entry: the upper bounds of the problem variables and general constraints, to be freed. If bu or *bu is a null pointer, no action is taken.

On exit: if bu is not null, *bu is set to the null pointer.
6: $xs$ – double **Input/Output: On entry: a set of initial values for the variables and constraints, to be freed. If xs or *xs is a null pointer no action is taken.

On exit: if xs is not null, *xs is set to the null pointer.

6 Error Indicators and Warnings

None.

7 Accuracy

Not applicable.

8 Parallelism and Performance

nag_opt_sparse_mps_free (e04myc) is not threaded in any implementation.

9 Further Comments

In addition to allocating the memory freed by this function, nag_opt_sparse_mps_read (e04mzc) also allocates memory to the

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member of the options structure (if the structure is supplied as an argument). The function nag_opt_free (e04xzc) should be used to free this memory. You must not use the standard C function free() for this purpose.