[petsc-dev] fun little project

[Barry Smith]

   It would be nice if BlasLapack.py checked the size of the integers that the Blas/LAPACK routines take, normally they are 32 bit but they might be 64. 

   I think this requires generating a program that actually does a little BLAS operation and checks that the answer is correct (or if the code crashed). This gets doubly tricky if using --with-batch mode cause there you can't have the program crash :-(. 

   We are going to need this support real soon so it would be great if someone did it (and tested it :-).


   Barry