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Field G. Van Zee b444489f10 Added new "attached" scalar representation.
Details:
- Added infrastructure to support a new scalar representation, whereby
  every object contains an internal scalar that defaults to 1.0. This
  facilitates passing scalars around without having to house them in
  separate objects. These "attached" scalars are stored in the internal
  atom_t field of the obj_t struct, and are always stored to be the same
  datatype as the object to which they are attached. Level-3 variants no
  longer take scalar arguments, however, level-3 internal back-ends stll
  do; this is so that the calling function can perform subproblems such
  as C := C - alpha * A * B on-the-fly without needing to change either
  of the scalars attached to A or B.
- Removed scalar argument from packm_int().
- Observe and apply attached scalars in scalm_int(), and removed scalar
  from interface of scalm_unb_var1().
- Renamed the following functions (and corresponding invocations):

   bli_obj_init_scalar_copy_of()
                           -> bli_obj_scalar_init_detached_copy_of()
   bli_obj_init_scalar()   -> bli_obj_scalar_init_detached()
   bli_obj_create_scalar_with_attached_buffer()
                           -> bli_obj_create_1x1_with_attached_buffer()
   bli_obj_scalar_equals() -> bli_obj_equals()

- Defined new functions:

   bli_obj_scalar_detach()
   bli_obj_scalar_attach()
   bli_obj_scalar_apply_scalar()
   bli_obj_scalar_reset()
   bli_obj_scalar_has_nonzero_imag()
   bli_obj_scalar_equals()

- Placed all bli_obj_scalar_* functions in a new file, bli_obj_scalar.c.
- Renamed the following macros:

   bli_obj_scalar_buffer() -> bli_obj_buffer_for_1x1()
   bli_obj_is_scalar()     -> bli_obj_is_1x1()

- Defined new macros to set and copy internal scalars between objects:

   bli_obj_set_internal_scalar()
   bli_obj_copy_internal_scalar()

- In level-3 internal back-ends, added conditional blocks where alpha and
  beta are checked for non-unit-ness. Those values for alpha and beta are
  applied to the scalars attached to aliases of A/B/C, as appropriate,
  before being passed into the variant specified by the control tree.
- In level-3 blocked variants, pass BLIS_ONE into subproblems instead of
  alpha and/or beta.
- In level-3 macro-kernels, changed how scalars are obtained. Now, scalars
  attached to A and B are multiplied together to obtain alpha, while beta
  is obtained directly from C.
- In level-3 front-ends, removed old function calls meant to provide
  future support for mixed domain/precision. These can be added back later
  once that functionality is given proper treatment. Also, removed the
  creating of copy-casts of alpha and beta since typecasting of scalars
  is now implicitly handled in the internal back-ends when alpha and
  beta are applied to the attached scalars.
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