using malloc in dgels function of lapacke - malloc

Question

i am trying to use dgels function of lapacke:
when i use it with malloc fucntion. it doesnot give correct value.
can anybody tell me please what is the mistake when i use malloc and create a matrix?
thankyou
/* Calling DGELS using row-major order */
#include <stdio.h>
#include <lapacke.h>
#include <conio.h>
#include <malloc.h>
int main ()
{
double a[3][2] = {{1,0},{1,1},{1,2}};
double **outputArray;
int designs=3;
int i,j,d,i_mal;
lapack_int info,m,n,lda,ldb,nrhs;
double outputArray[3][1] = {{6},{0},{0}};*/
outputArray = (double**) malloc(3* sizeof(double*));
for(i_mal=0;i_mal<3;i_mal++)
{
outputArray[i_mal] = (double*) malloc(1* sizeof(double));
}
for (i=0;i<designs;i++)
{
printf("put first value");
scanf("%lf",&outputArray[i][0]);
}
m = 3;
n = 2;
nrhs = 1;
lda = 2;
ldb = 1;
info = LAPACKE_dgels(LAPACK_ROW_MAJOR,'N',m,n,nrhs,*a,lda,*outputArray,ldb);
for(i=0;i<m;i++)
{
for(j=0;j<nrhs;j++)
{
printf("%lf ",outputArray[i][j]);
}
printf("\n");
}
getch();
return (info);
}

Answer 1

The problem may come from outputArray not being contiguous in memory. You may use something like this instead :
outputArray = (double**) malloc(3* sizeof(double*));
outputArray[0]=(double*) malloc(3* sizeof(double));
for (i=0;i<designs;i++){
outputArray[i]=&outputArray[0][i];
}
Don't forget to free the memory !
free(outputArray[0]);
free(outputArray);
Edit : Contiguous means that you have to allocate the memory for all values at once. See http://www.fftw.org/doc/Dynamic-Arrays-in-C_002dThe-Wrong-Way.html#Dynamic-Arrays-in-C_002dThe-Wrong-Way : some packages, like fftw or lapack require this feature for optimization. As you were calling malloc three times, you created three parts and things went wrong.
If you have a single right hand side, there is no need for a 2D array (double**). outputArray[i] is a double*, that is, the start of the i-th row ( row major). The right line may be outputArray[i]=&outputArray[0][i*nrhs]; if you have many RHS.
By doing this in your code, you are building a 3 rows, one column, that is one RHS. The solution, is of size n=2. It should be outputArray[0][0] , outputArray[1][0]. I hope i am not too wrong, check this on simple cases !
Bye,