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Subprograms for basic matrix operations
Subprograms for basic matrix operations
The following sections in this chapter describe the legacy Extended BLAS and
BLAS Standard matrix subprograms included with VECLIB:
• Legacy BLAS routines
• BLAS Standard routines
Note that the specification for operator arguments is different in legacy BLAS
routines than in BLAS Standard routines. Operator arguments are represented
in the BLAS Standard Fortran 77 interface as INTEGERs; in the legacy BLAS
they are defined as CHARACTER*1.
In BLAS Standard routines, you specify an operator argument with a named
constant value. Refer to the individual routines in “BLAS Standard routines”
on page 339 for the named constants you can use to specify operator
arguments. The actual numeric value assigned to the named constant is
defined in the f77blas.h include file.