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Re: [wwwdocs] Add "-fexternal-blas" to gcc-4.3/changes.html

From: Brooks Moses <bmoses at stanford dot edu>
To: fortran at gcc dot gnu dot org
Cc: gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org,gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 11:44:58 -0700
Subject: Re: [wwwdocs] Add "-fexternal-blas" to gcc-4.3/changes.html
Organization: Stanford University
References: <453BF79A.1040604@net-b.de> <D12DC42D-CEF9-4189-B3DC-9A26F6AB8497@gmail.com> <453CA928.3030204@gmx.de>

Tobias Burnus wrote:

Are there further comments, suggestions or errors?

[...]

 <h3>Fortran</h3>
+  <ul>
+    <li>The <code>
+    <a
href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gfortran/Code-Gen-Options.html#Code-Gen-Options";>
+    -fexternal-blas</a></code> option has been added, which
+    generates calls to BLAS routines for matrix operations such as
+    <code>matmul</code> rather than using the built-in algorithms.</li>
+  </ul>

It looks good to me. The only additional suggestion I would have is to put "intrinsic" in front of "matrix operations", to make it clear that this is only affecting intrinsics and not user code.

- Brooks

References:
- [wwwdocs] Add "-fexternal-blas" to gcc-4.3/changes.html
  - From: Tobias Burnus
- Re: [wwwdocs] Add "-fexternal-blas" to gcc-4.3/changes.html
  - From: FX Coudert
- Re: [wwwdocs] Add "-fexternal-blas" to gcc-4.3/changes.html
  - From: Tobias Burnus

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