On Mon, 29 Aug 2005, Göran Broström wrote:
On Mon, Aug 29, 2005 at 10:27:24AM +0100, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
On Mon, 29 Aug 2005, Göran Broström wrote:
[...]
BTW, the original BLAS xerbla (from the netlib page you referred to)
gives the message:
WRITE( *, FMT = 9999 )SRNAME, INFO
9999 FORMAT( ' ** On entry to ', A6, ' parameter number ', I2, ' had ',
$ 'an illegal value' )
which I think is even better than my original suggestion.
(Why was it changed?)
Probably because R is not a Fortran program and so needs to make clear
what these refer to, and because LAPACK does have other error values that
invalid parameter values.
LAPACK/BLAS routines call xerbla "if an input parameter has an
invalid value" (exact quote from XERBLA at Netlib). Other types of errors
are not printed (by xerbla), but it is up to the user to check the return
value of the argument 'INFO'. See
http://www.netlib.org/lapack/lug/node119.html.
Maybe, that is not actually true for real-life LAPACK implementations, as
I did say.
So we can safely give the more informative, original, error messages,
together with mentioning LAPACK and eventually BLAS, whatever you prefer.
This would "make clear what these refer to". Given that other BLAS/LAPACK
routines than xerbla aren't changed in R, of course.
Irrelevant as R is often compiled against other ones implementations.
--
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