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Re: Is --enable-64 still experimental?
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Orion Poplawski |
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Re: Is --enable-64 still experimental? |
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Thu, 19 Mar 2015 09:54:34 -0600 |
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On 03/19/2015 09:42 AM, John W. Eaton wrote:
> On 03/19/2015 11:34 AM, Orion Poplawski wrote:
>> There's been a request in Fedora
>> (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1082507) to enable 64bit
>> indexing
>> in octave. I see in 4.0.0-rc1 this is still marked as experimental, which is
>> one of the reasons we're not enabling it. Is this indeed still the case? It
>> seems like it would be a good thing to enable otherwise.
>
> I think it's still incomplete. For example, saving and loading data may not
> work properly with 64-bit indexing.
>
> Does Fedora already have blas, lapack, suitesparse, etc. libraries compiled
> with 64-bit indexing?
No, that's the other major reason for not enabling it :).
> jwe
>
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