BLAS in C

Tom MacDonald uunet!fig.cray.com!tam
Tue Dec 3 07:19:17 PST 1991


> The proposed BLAS in C are a pretty straightforward translation from
> Fortran, and probably would not generate a lot of controversy.  I'd prefer that
> the names of BLAS in C not overlap the names of BLAS in Fortran, since one
> can imagine one application program exploiting diverse libraries which were
> implemented in C and Fortran.

I assume there will be some sort of assumption about aliasing (or lack thereof)
in the implementation.  It should be explicitly mentioned though.

Tom MacDonald



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