On Thu, 6 Nov 2008, Anand Patil wrote:

On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 6:48 AM, Prof Brian Ripley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
      And how does that help you?  At some future point on a real problem you 
will get
      incorrect answers/segfault.

      That test was put there as a result of such incorrect results found the 
hard way.


I appreciate that... but I never use the complex blas, so in my case the test 
is preventing me
from taking advantage of MKL's real blas. Or is the zdotu error symptomatic of 
a problem that
would affect the real blas also?

Only complex BLASAFAIK, *but* e.g. lapack uses it internally, AFAIK even for real inputs.


Anand



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