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calling mkl with multidimensional arrays

tracyx
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Hello,
When an MKL routine requires an array for input and/or output, is it always safe to call MKL from Fortran passing a multi-dimensional array, rather than passing a single dimensional array (with the same total size)?
Thanks
Tracy
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Ying_H_Intel
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Hello Tracy,

What is the problem are you seeing? MKL support fortran interface call. So it should be safe to feed it with multi-dimension array. It will read it as single dimension array based on column-major order.
It seems more Fortan language feature other than MKL feature.

Best Regards,
Ying

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Ying_H_Intel
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Hello Tracy,

What is the problem are you seeing? MKL support fortran interface call. So it should be safe to feed it with multi-dimension array. It will read it as single dimension array based on column-major order.
It seems more Fortan language feature other than MKL feature.

Best Regards,
Ying
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tracyx
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Hi Ying,
Thanks for your email - I wasn't seeing any problem, I just was not sure whether I could always be sure that it would always work like that.
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