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Re: BLAS documentation


On Tue, 2006-03-14 at 23:34 -0500, Arthur K. Barnes wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Thanks for a great library. I notice that the GSL documentation for
> the BLAS wrappers include function prototypes, but not a description
> of what each function does.  Granted, it is possible to infer
> functionality from the function name, and there is a link to the BLAS
> documentation, but it still is a bit of a pain. I'm willing to produce
> a patch for a completed version, but I'm curious if there is a reason
> for referring to the BLAS documentation.
> 
> Thanks again,
> -Art
> 
i assume you refer to appendix d of the manual. you are right, only the
prototypes are listed. for the complete documentation refer to chapter
12. the naming convention is gsl_blas_function <-> cblas_function. the
only part that is not obvious are the dimensions of the various
matrices/vectors. they are contained in the gsl_matrix or gsl_vevtor but
have to be supplied for the wrapper.
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