From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,39ace4c4032cf84b X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news4.google.com!proxad.net!feeder1-2.proxad.net!feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Simon Wright Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: question on GtkAda Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2010 17:57:51 +0000 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: <4e69ab19-1d1e-4ab9-935b-a5da160dadc4@e16g2000pri.googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Injection-Info: mx03.eternal-september.org; posting-host="dFCm8HWntFqmDIilBLqEJQ"; logging-data="23348"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19fpWuiumlFpq2mmk1PICesy78UtCzobys=" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (darwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:00WTrHk2SvO093cmyCsDYAmgVpo= sha1:QSZNMDhuR0U/ZugZIDMtIL1Jg1s= Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:16997 Date: 2010-12-18T17:57:51+00:00 List-Id: "Nasser M. Abbasi" writes: > Now, given all the above, for scientific applications, I still > need to be able to access lapack functions from Ada. Ada Annex G > just does not cut it. Very limited. As well as what other small > Ada math libraries I could find. > > > So far, I could not find full binding to these. There are 100's of > functions there, that has been written over span of more than 30 > years or more: > > http://www.netlib.org/lapack/release_notes.html > > that one would need to call to do any type of scientific > work. As a matter of interest, what main functionality are you missing? (bearing in mind that many functions come in 4 variants (s, d, c, z) and that there are many that are optimized for a particular kind of matrix, eg tridiagonal).