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On Jul 9, 2:35=A0am, Simon Wright <si...@pushface.org> wrote:
> > I wish these bindings would be rewritten to use Annex G.3 Real_Vector
> > and Real_Matrix (etc. for complex) so that a single set of types can
> > be used in a program that uses the G.3 stuff anyway.
>
> The problem with that is that the BLAS is a Fortran library, so expects
> Fortran conventions for matrices. The Ada_BLAS bindings are thin, so
> don't do the transposition required .
>
> The old GNAT Ada.Numerics.Generic_{Real,Complex}_Arrays did the
> transposition explicitly.
>
> There was a discussion about this (and performance aspects) on this
> group:http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.ada/browse_frm/thread/5395=
b8...

OS X ships with both Fortran and C versions of BLAS and LAPACK, so I
would suppose the C version is common. Wouldn't using the C versions
solve this problem? As I recall, both Ada and C are row major.

Jerry