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Re: gslclapack

From: "J.J.Green" <j dot j dot green at sheffield dot ac dot uk>
To: Linas Vepstas <linas at austin dot ibm dot com>
Cc: Gerard Jungman <jungman at lanl dot gov>, gsl-discuss <gsl-discuss at sources dot redhat dot com>
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2006 19:04:39 +0100 (BST)
Subject: Re: gslclapack
References: <20060326024112.GD10650@aphex.iro.umontreal.ca><17449.8846.482296.295861@hp2.network-theory.co.uk><1143592207.2934.77.camel@bellerophon.lanl.gov> <20060329174453.GF2172@austin.ibm.com>

Hi

which seems no better than calling the fortran libs directly
from c code. And the problem with this is, of course, that

[snip]

These seem to be the major probblems, right?


I think the problem with calling fortran from C is that
it is compiler, OS and (I think) architecture dependant.
CLAPACK solves the portability problem, but as you have
noticed, not the arcane interface which puts most poeple
off using it.

Cheers

Jim
--
J.J. Green, Dept. Applied Mathematics, Hicks Bld.,
University of Sheffield, UK.   +44 (0114) 222 3742
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