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Date: 2012-08-18T22:46:33+01:00
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Niklas Holsti <niklas.holsti@tidorum.invalid> writes:

> I wonder why Ada_Lapack needs convention-Fortran matrices, when it
> does not use any Fortran code. Perhaps the reason is the frequent use
> in Ada_Lapack of "for X'Address use Y", where X is an array. Yuck. But
> writing a native Ada clone of LAPACK could be a lot of work, and might
> need some deep understanding of how the Fortran LAPACK works.

Just for fun I tried replacing convention Fortran with convention
Ada. *Not* a success :-(