Re: C to Ada conversion

[tmoran@acm.org]

>ok but otherwise it is very dangerous because it does not take into
>account that in Ada the index range of arrays does not necessarly
>start with 1 (or 0 as in C). A general purpose matrix package should
>be able to cope with the situation that the index range could be
>anything as long as the involved matrices are compatibel in size.
  That's why the comments said:
>>  -- It raises Constraint_Error if A or Inverse is not square
>>  -- or if their index ranges don't match
>>  -- or if the determinant of A is too small.
  For quick transliteration that didn't seem important.  For a benchmark
to compare with C, the extra Ada generality seemed like a bad idea.  For
a general purpose matrix package, I agree, the considerations are
different.