Re: Parallel and MPI with default branch

[Sebastian Schöps]

Dear Carlo

> Sorry "octave_idx_type num;" is in MPI_Recv.cc. I had to fix two files. 
> 
> Ok this change is correct then, not sure about int8NDArray though.

Well, int8NDArray was just a wild guess :) Probably one of 
(u)int(8|16|32|64)NDArray is correct?! I did not dig deep enough to make an 
educated decision.

> I do not use any particular switches and I do not special BLAS libraries. It 
> works with plain openBLAS or Apple's Accelerate. Octave detects during 
> configure the situation correctly and enables 64bit only for indexing but not 
> for BLAS. Configure says 
> 
> 64-bit array dims and indexing:       yes 
> 64-bit BLAS array dims and indexing:  no 
> 
> Best 
> Sebastian
> 
> Well I'll also switch to --enable-64 then.
> Does this mean the wiki is outdated?

I assume yes, maybe there is a thread in the forum? I did not find much 
documentation on this and I was scared in the beginning. However, all tests 
pass and I got confident over time :)

Sebastian