Details:
- Updated the build system so that "lesser" Makefiles, such as those in
belonging to example code or the testsuite, may be run even if the
directory is orphaned from the original build tree. This allows a
user to configure, compile, and install BLIS, delete the build tree
(that is, the source distribution, or the build directory for out-
of-tree builds) and then compile example or testsuite code and link
against the installed copy of BLIS (provided the example or testsuite
directory was preserved or obtained from another source). The only
requirement is that make be invoked while setting the
BLIS_INSTALL_PATH variable to the same installation prefix used when
BLIS was configured. The easiest syntax is:
make BLIS_INSTALL_PATH=/install/prefix
though it's also permissible to set BLIS_INSTALL_PATH as an
environment variable prior to running 'make'.
- Updated all lesser Makefiles to implement the new aforementioned build
behavior.
- Relocated check-blastest.sh and check-blistest.sh from build to
blastest and testsuite, respectively, so that if those directories are
copied elsewhere the user can still run 'make check' locally.
- Updated docs/Testsuite.md with language that mentions this new option
of building/linking against an installed copy of BLIS.
Details:
- Added new example code to examples/tapi demonstrating how to use the
BLIS typed API. These code examples directly mirror the corresponding
example code files in examples/oapi. This setup provides a convenient
opportunity for newcomers to BLIS to compare and contrast the typed
and object APIs when they are used to perform the same tasks.
- Minor cleanups to examples/oapi.
Details:
- Implemented bli_acquire_mpart(), a general-purpose submatrix view
function that will alias an obj_t to be a submatrix "view" of an
existing obj_t.
- Renumbered examples in examples/oapi and inserted a new example file,
03obj_view.c, which shows how to use bli_acquire_mpart() to obtain
submatrix views of existing objects, which can then be used to
indirectly modify the parent object.
Details:
- Fixed artifacts of malformed recursive sed expressions used when
preparing 4b36e85, in which most function-like macros were converted
to static functions. The syntactically defective code was contained
entirely in examples/oapi. Thanks to Tony Skjellum for reporting this
issue.
- Update to CREDITS file.
Details:
- Renamed the following variables in config.mk (via build/config.mk.in):
BLIS_ENABLE_VERBOSE_MAKE_OUTPUT -> ENABLE_VERBOSE
BLIS_ENABLE_STATIC_BUILD -> MK_ENABLE_STATIC
BLIS_ENABLE_SHARED_BUILD -> MK_ENABLE_SHARED
BLIS_ENABLE_BLAS2BLIS -> MK_ENABLE_BLAS
BLIS_ENABLE_CBLAS -> MK_ENABLE_CBLAS
BLIS_ENABLE_MEMKIND -> MK_ENABLE_MEMKIND
and also renamed all uses of these variables in makefiles and makefile
fragments. Notice that we use the "MK_" prefix so that those variables
can be easily differentiated (such as via grep) from their "BLIS_" C
preprocessor macro counterparts.
- Other whitespace changes to build/config.mk.in.
- Renamed the following C preprocessor macros in bli_config.h (via
build/bli_config.h.in):
BLIS_ENABLE_BLAS2BLIS -> BLIS_ENABLE_BLAS
BLIS_DISABLE_BLAS2BLIS -> BLIS_DISABLE_BLAS
BLIS_BLAS2BLIS_INT_TYPE_SIZE -> BLIS_BLAS_INT_TYPE_SIZE
and also renamed all relevant uses of these macros in BLIS source
files.
- Renamed "blas2blis" variable occurrences in configure to "blas", as
was done in build/config.mk.in and build/bli_config.h.in.
- Renamed the following functions in frame/base/bli_info.c:
bli_info_get_enable_blas2blis() -> bli_info_get_enable_blas()
bli_info_get_blas2blis_int_type_size()
-> bli_info_get_blas_int_type_size()
- Remove bli_config.h during 'make cleanh' target of top-level Makefile.
Details:
- Converted most C preprocessor macros in bli_param_macro_defs.h and
bli_obj_macro_defs.h to static functions.
- Reshuffled some functions/macros to bli_misc_macro_defs.h and also
between bli_param_macro_defs.h and bli_obj_macro_defs.h.
- Changed obj_t-initializing macros in bli_type_defs.h to static
functions.
- Removed some old references to BLIS_TWO and BLIS_MINUS_TWO from
bli_constants.h.
- Whitespace changes in select files (four spaces to single tab).
Details:
- Added code to examples/oapi/5level1m.c that demonstrates transposing
(and conjugate-transposing) unstructured matrices.
- Comment updates to 6level1m_diag.c to maintain consistency with new
examples in 5level1m.c.
Details:
- Added a new code example file to examples/oapi demonstrating how to use
various utility operations.
- Comment updates to other example files.
- README updates.
Details:
- Added an 'examples' directory at the top level.
- Added an 'oapi' subdirectory in 'examples' that contains a tutorial-like
sequence of example code demostrating the core functionality of BLIS's
object-based API, along with a Makefile and README. Thanks to Victor
Eijkhout for being the first to suggest including such code in BLIS.
