topic Const correctness in Intel® oneAPI Math Kernel Library

Const correctness

asd__asdqwe — Fri, 06 Apr 2018 13:00:35 GMT

Hello,

Is there a reason the parameters of mkl_sparse_?_create_[b|c]sr are of type C_INT or C_[FLOAT|DOUBLE|FLOAT_COMPLEX|DOUBLE_COMPLEX] instead of const C_INT const or const C_[FLOAT|DOUBLE|FLOAT_COMPLEX|DOUBLE_COMPLEX] const? Do you modify the pointers or the values provided by the user? I currently need to use ugly const_cast because my pointers are of type const T* const. E.g.,

mkl_sparse_d_create_bsr(&bsr, SPARSE_INDEX_BASE_ONE, SPARSE_LAYOUT_COLUMN_MAJOR, *m, *k, *bs, const_cast<int*>(ia), const_cast<int*>(ia + 1), const_cast<int*>(ja), const_cast<double*>(a));

Any chance this could get fixed?

Thanks.

Yes, we definitely should add

Gennady_F_Intel — Sat, 07 Apr 2018 02:09:32 GMT

Yes, we definitely should add this. we should add const modifier to many others SpBLAS IE API. We will keep you posted with on the progress.

The issue has been fixed into

Gennady_F_Intel — Tue, 17 Dec 2019 02:55:34 GMT

The issue has been fixed into the latest v2020 which was released the last week.