[MMTK] result['info']

[Mihali A. Felipe]

On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 konrad.hinsen at laposte.net wrote:

> 1) Your version of LAPACK is different from mine (possible, there have 
> been updates, which may or may not maintain compatibility). This is 
> relevant only if you have installed the full Python LAPACK interface. 
> Otherwise you are using the subset that comes with MMTK, which uses a 
> subset of CLAPACK.
> 
> 2) Data type sizes are sufficiently different in the 64-bit Linux that 
> parameter passing to Fortran routines needs to be adapted.
> 
> The second case sounds more likely, as I have never heard of 
> LAPACK-related issues before. Do you know what sizes (in bits) the 
> various C data types have on your machine?

Hello Konrad:

I know you asked for bits, but it's 8 times the following in our AMD
Opteron running SuSE 9.1 x86_64 (output from printf("X %d\n", 
sizeof(X)); ) :

char          1
unsigned char 1
short         2
int           4
long int      8
unsigned int  4
float         4
double        8
*char         8
long long     8

It's 8 times the following in Xeons

char          1
unsigned char 1
short         2
int           4
long int      4
unsigned int  4
float         4
double        8
*char         4
long long     8

In other words, long int and char * are different. Would this cause a
problem? I am using the lapack that comes with mmtk.

Thanks again!



- Mihali

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Mihali A. Felipe
Systems Programmer
Gerstein Lab : Bioinformatics
Yale University Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry