Developer Reference for Intel® oneAPI Math Kernel Library for Fortran

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Date 7/13/2023
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DftiFreeDescriptor

Frees the memory allocated for a descriptor.

Syntax

status = DftiFreeDescriptor( desc_handle )

Include Files

  • mkl_dfti.f90

Input Parameters

Name

Type

Description

desc_handle

DESCRIPTOR_HANDLE

FFT descriptor.

Output Parameters

Name

Type

Description

desc_handle

DESCRIPTOR_HANDLE

Memory for the FFT descriptor is released.

status

INTEGER

Function completion status.

Description

This function frees all memory allocated for a descriptor.

NOTE:

Memory allocation/deallocation inside Intel® oneAPI Math Kernel Library (oneMKL) is managed by Intel® oneAPI Math Kernel Library (oneMKL) memory management software. So, even after successful completion of FreeDescriptor, the memory space may continue being allocated for the application because the memory management software sometimes does not return the memory space to the OS, but considers the space free and can reuse it for future memory allocation. See Example mkl_free_buffers: Usage with FFT Functions on how to use Intel® oneAPI Math Kernel Library (oneMKL) memory management software and release memory to the OS.

The function returns zero when it completes successfully. See Status Checking Functions for more information on the returned status.

Interface

 
INTERFACE DftiFreeDescriptor
//Note that the body provided here is to illustrate the different
//argument list and types of dummy arguments. The interface
//does not guarantee what the actual function names are.
//Users can only rely on the function name following the
//keyword INTERFACE
 FUNCTION some_actual_function_3( Desc_Handle )
 INTEGER :: some_actual_function_3
 TYPE(DFTI_DESCRIPTOR), POINTER :: Desc_Handle
 END FUNCTION some_actual_function_3
END INTERFACE DftiFreeDescriptor