Re: [ublas] Numeric Bindings to LAPACK on x64

Subject: Re: [ublas] Numeric Bindings to LAPACK on x64
From: Michael Baumgart (michi-baumgart_at_[hidden])
Date: 2012-06-01 05:26:17

Ok, thanks a lot for the hints.

Works like a charm!

I will try out the bindings with a ILP64 Lapack the next time. It might
be that Matlab x64 ships with such a version.

Cheers,
Michael

On 24.05.2012 21:11, Andrey Asadchev wrote:
> The binding were much simplified (imo)
> 
> for example:
> 
>                 bindings::begin_value(a)
>                 bindings::stride_major(a),
>                 bindings::begin_value(x)
>                 bindings::stride(x)
> 
>                 bindings::value_type< MatrixA >::type
> 
> look at is_*, has_*, etc files in
> boost/numeric/bindings/
> 
> On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 1:57 PM, Michael Baumgart <michi-baumgart_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>>
>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> For now, I'm compiling with MSVC 10 and I get loads of warnings like the
>>>>>> following:
>>>>>> <pathtoboost>\boost/numeric/bindings/lapack/ilaenv.hpp(34) : warning
>>>>>> C4267: 'argument' : conversion from 'size_t' to 'int', possible loss of data
>>>>>>
>>>>>> This is quite clear to me, as all size members of ublas types are size_t
>>>>>> (=unsigned _int64), while the binding interface bases on int (32bit) types.
>>>>>> Although my code runs so far, I'm afraid to run into trouble sometime.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Is there a way to correctly handle the x64 case with uBlas and the
>>>>>> numeric bindings?
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> You can't really other than getting ILP64 LAPACK.
>>>>> it will hurt you only if you specify lens/dims more than 2^31.
>>>>
>>>> Ok for the right LAPACK binaries. But still, due to the explicit use of
>>>> int types (and the implicit cast) in the bindings, the linking with the
>>>> correct binary (with 64bit size types) might fail.
>>>>
>>>> Wouldn't an adapted binding be necessary? Is this available or
>>>> considered somewhere?
>>>
>>> You are using old bindings
>>> Try the new ones:
>>> http://svn.boost.org/svn/boost/sandbox/numeric_bindings/
>>> The link is very hard to find through Google.
>>>
>>> In case you use ILP64 LAPACK set BIND_FORTRAN_INTEGER_8
>>
>> Thanks for the hint. I was a bit afraid to switch over to the svn version.
>>
>> Now I know why: Some old methods are gone.
>> I'm sorry to annoy you with that: I was using the traits matrix_storage
>> and vector_storage. I can't find them in the current release. Were they
>> replaced by some other mechanisms? I couldn't find out.
>>
>> Thanks a lot for your help.
>> Michael
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