[Pkg-octave-devel] 64 bit indexing

[John W. Eaton]

On 05/21/2013 05:18 AM, Shan Mignot wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I am fighting with a bug related to parcellfun which only occurs when
> returning a large NDArray so Octave will only let me return it if
> compiled with --enable-64. I have reported the bug to the Octave
> development team but they doubt I have built it correctly since they
> consider compiling Octave with 64-bit addressing somewhat subtle. Would
> you have a set of packages with this feature enabled for Octave and the
> libraries it depends on (I run the testing distribution) ?

I don't think any distributions package lapack and blas libraries 
compiled with 64-bit integers.  That's precisely the reason that 
building Octave with --enable-64 is difficult.

jwe