In addition, NAG recommends that before calling any library routine you should read the following reference material (see Section 5):
(a) Essential Introduction
(b) Chapter Introduction
(c) Routine Document
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We also assume that the default shortcut for the Library command prompt is placed in the Start Menu under:
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To ensure that the NAG DLLs are accessible at runtime, the install dir\bin folder must be on the path. If the MKL version of the DLL is to be used, the install dir\MKL_ia32_8.0\bin folder must also be on the path, but should appear later in the path than the install dir\bin folder, since the NAG versions of a few BLAS/LAPACK routines are included in CLDLL084Z_mkl.dll to avoid problems with the vendor versions. (See Section 4 for details.)
To check the accessibility of the NAG DLLs, run the program NAG_C_DLL_info.exe which is available from the Start Menu shortcut
NAG C Library DLLs (CLDLL084ZL). Check AccessibilitySee Section 3.2 for details of this utility.
The PATH, LIB and INCLUDE environment variables may already have been set globally as part of the installation or this may be done via the Control Panel. (On Windows XP, from Control Panel select System | Advanced | Environment Variables; on Vista from Control Panel select System and Maintenance (if not using Classic View), then System | Advanced System Settings | Environment Variables... .) Either the user or the system variables may be edited, although Administrator privileges will be required to edit the system ones. Edit the PATH environment variable to include
c:\Program Files\NAG\CL08\cldll084zl\batch; c:\Program Files\NAG\CL08\cldll084zl\bin; c:\Program Files\NAG\CL08\cldll084zl\MKL_ia32_8.0\bin; existing pathadd or edit the LIB environment variable to include
c:\Program Files\NAG\CL08\cldll084zl\lib; c:\Program Files\NAG\CL08\cldll084zl\MKL_ia32_8.0\lib; any existing library pathadd or edit the INCLUDE environment variable to include
c:\Program Files\NAG\CL08\cldll084zl\include; any existing include pathsubstituting the correct folder where the NAG C DLLs are installed if necessary.
Alternatively, if you wish to access this implementation from a command prompt window, the environment variables may be set locally.
The shortcut:
NAG C Library DLLs (CLDLL084ZL). Command Promptmay be used to start a command prompt window with the correct settings for the INCLUDE, LIB and PATH environment variables for the Library and supplied MKL. The environment variable NAG_CLDLL084ZL, which is needed by the nagc_example*.bat batch files (see Section 3.3), is also set.
If the shortcut is not used, you can set the environment variables by running the batch file envvars.bat for this implementation. The default location for this file is:
C:\Program Files\NAG\CL08\cldll084zl\batch\envvars.batIf this file is not in the default location, you can locate it by searching for the file envvars.bat containing cldll084zl.
In this DLL implementation, for convenience, the MKL symbols are exported directly from the NAG import library CLDLL084Z_mkl.lib, so it is not necessary to specify the MKL import libraries libguide40.lib and mkl_s_dll.lib as well. However, if the MKL import libraries are specified, it is important that the NAG import library preceeds them, i.e. the order should be
CLDLL084Z_mkl.lib libguide40.lib mkl_s_dll.libbecause certain parts of the MKL should not be used (see Section 4).
Information on calling the NAG C DLLs from various different environments is described in the separate document Using the NAG C Library Windows DLLs. Further information on calling NAG C or Fortran DLLs is available on the NAG web site at
http://www.nag.co.uk/numeric/Num_DLLhelp.asp
Start|All Programs|NAG|CL08|NAG C Library DLLs
(CLDLL084ZL). Check Accessibility
shortcut on the Start Menu, the DLLs will be found if the global PATH
environment variable has been set to include their location. If it is
run from a Command Prompt window, then the environment local to that
window will prevail. (See Section 3.1
for more information on environment variables.)
For each of the DLLs that it loads successfully, NAG_C_DLL_info.exe will print the location of the DLL, and pop up a message box showing the implementation details as provided by a call to the routine a00aac. It also calls a00acc to check the availability of a valid license key if required by the implementation and reports if this is not found; "Status OK" indicates that a valid key was either found or not required.
The example programs are most easily accessed using the batch files nagc_example.bat or nagc_example_mkl.bat, which can be found in the "batch" folder. These batch files will provide you with a copy of an example program (and its data, if any), compile the program and link it with the appropriate libraries (showing you the compile command so that you can recompile your own version of the program). Finally, the executable program will be run.
These batch files require that the environment variables for Microsoft C/C++ and the NAG C Library are set. In particular, the environment variable NAG_CLDLL084ZL needs to be set to the location of the NAG C Library. Please see Section 3.1 for details of how to do this.
The example program concerned is specified by the argument to the command, e.g.
nagc_example_mkl d01ajcwill copy the example program into the file d01ajce.c in the current folder and process it to produce the example program results (d01ajce.r in this case). (If the example has a corresponding data file, this too will be copied to the current folder.)
Alternatively you could use:
nagc_example d01ajc
The difference between nagc_example_mkl.bat and nagc_example.bat is that while nagc_example_mkl.bat uses the library CLDLL084Z_mkl.lib and the MKL BLAS/LAPACK libraries, nagc_example.bat uses the self-contained library CLDLL084Z_nag.lib. The executables created will use CLDLL084Z_mkl.dll and CLDLL084Z_nag.dll respectively.
If you have problems when calling a NAG routine using CLDLL084Z_mkl.lib or CLDLL084Z_mkl_bc.lib, we suggest that you use the self-contained libraries CLDLL084Z_nag.lib or CLDLL084Z_nag_bc.lib. (CLDLL084Z_mkl_bc.lib and CLDLL084Z_nag_bc.lib are the import libraries for use with the Borland C++ compiler.)
The example programs are supplied in machine-readable form. They are suitable for immediate usage. Note that the distributed example programs are those used in this implementation and may not correspond exactly with the programs published in the manual. The distributed example programs should be used in preference wherever possible.
The distributed example results are those obtained with the NAG self-contained library CLDLL084Z_nag.dll (using the NAG BLAS and LAPACK routines). Running the examples with MKL BLAS or LAPACK may give slightly different results.
Please note that with this DLL version of the library, if you are not using Release 8.0 (Version 14.00.50727.42) of the Microsoft Visual C++ compiler, mixing output from your C code with output from NAG C Library functions, e.g. x04 chapter functions, may result in output files where results appear in the wrong order. This is apparent when running the NAG Example Programs, e.g. c06pfce.c, where titles written by the C example code appear after the matrices printed by the NAG C Library. This is caused by having two different C run time libraries linked to the executable, using buffered output which is flushed independently by each run time library. Similarly, code that relies on reading the same input file from C code and also via a NAG C Library function will not work as the current file pointer will not be shared by the two run time libraries. This may be seen in the failure of the NAG C Library Example Program e04nrce.c, which reads data for the C example and options for the NAG C Library function from the same file.
A more detailed description of this problem may be found on the NAG web site at http://www.nag.co.uk/numeric/CL/CDLLmanifest.asp.
These problems are not found in the static implementation of the NAG C Library (CLW3208DAL).
In this implementation calls to the NAG version of the following Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms (BLAS) and linear algebra routines (LAPACK) are included in the library CLDLL084Z_mkl.dll to avoid problems with the MKL version:
DBDSQR, DORMQR, ZBDSQR, ZHPEVD and ZUNMQR
s10aac E(1) = 1.8500e+1
s10abc fail.code = NE_REAL_ARG_GT if X > 7.080e+2
s10acc fail.code = NE_REAL_ARG_GT if X > 7.080e+2
s13aac X(hi) = 7.083e+2
s13acc X(hi) = 1.0e+16
s13adc X(hi) = 1.0e+17
s14aac fail.code = NE_REAL_ARG_GT if X > 1.70e+2
fail.code = NE_REAL_ARG_LT if X < -1.70e+2
fail.code = NE_REAL_ARG_TOO_SMALL if ABS(X) < 2.23e-308
s14abc fail.code = NE_REAL_ARG_GT if X > 2.55e+305
s17acc fail.code = NE_REAL_ARG_GT if X > 1.0e+16
s17adc fail.code = NE_REAL_ARG_GT if X > 1.0e+16
fail.code = NE_REAL_ARG_TOO_SMALL if X <= 2.23e-308
s17aec fail.code = NE_REAL_ARG_GT if ABS(X) > 1.0e+16
s17afc fail.code = NE_REAL_ARG_GT if ABS(X) > 1.0e+16
s17agc fail.code = NE_REAL_ARG_GT if X > 1.038e+2
fail.code = NE_REAL_ARG_LT if X < -5.6e+10
s17ahc fail.code = NE_REAL_ARG_GT if X > 1.041e+2
fail.code = NE_REAL_ARG_LT if X < -5.6e+10
s17ajc fail.code = NE_REAL_ARG_GT if X > 1.041e+2
fail.code = NE_REAL_ARG_LT if X < -1.8e+9
s17akc fail.code = NE_REAL_ARG_GT if X > 1.041e+2
fail.code = NE_REAL_ARG_LT if X < -1.8e+9
s18adc fail.code = NE_REAL_ARG_TOO_SMALL if 0.0D+00 < X <= 2.23e-308
s18aec fail.code = NE_REAL_ARG_GT if ABS(X) > 7.116e+2
s18afc fail.code = NE_REAL_ARG_GT if ABS(X) > 7.116e+2
s18cdc fail.code = NE_REAL_ARG_TOO_SMALL if 0.0D+00 < X <= 2.23e-308
s19aac fail.code = NE_REAL_ARG_GT if ABS(X) >= 4.95000e+1
s19abc fail.code = NE_REAL_ARG_GT if ABS(X) >= 4.95000e+1
s19acc fail.code = NE_REAL_ARG_GT if X > 9.9726e+2
s19adc fail.code = NE_REAL_ARG_GT if X > 9.9726e+2
s21bcc fail.code = NE_REAL_ARG_LT if an argument < 1.579e-205
fail.code = NE_REAL_ARG_GE if an argument >= 3.774e+202
s21bdc fail.code = NE_REAL_ARG_LT if an argument < 2.820e-103
fail.code = NE_REAL_ARG_GT if an argument > 1.404e+102
X01AAC (pi) = 3.14159265358979323846e+00 X01ABC (gamma) = 0.5772156649015328606e+00
The basic parameters of the model
X02BHC = 2 X02BJC = 53 X02BKC = -1021 X02BLC = 1024 X02DJC = Nag_TRUE
Derived parameters of the floating-point arithmetic
X02AJC = 1.11022302462516e-16 X02AKC = 2.22507385850721e-308 X02ALC = 1.79769313486231e+308 X02AMC = 2.22507385850721e-308 X02ANC = 2.22507385850721e-308
Parameters of other aspects of the computing environment
X02AHC = 1.84467440737095e+19 X02BBC = 2147483647 X02BEC = 15 X02DAC = Nag_FALSE
The function x03aaw changes the floating-point control word such that it sets the working precision to double precision (53-bit mantissa) and sets the rounding mode to nearest. x03aaw takes a single int argument, which is used to store the floating-point control word value on input and return it to the calling program, so this function is also used to retrieve the original (i.e. on entry) value of the control word.
The function x03aax sets the floating-point control word to the value specified in its single int argument. It is typically used to restore the floating-point control word to its original value after a call to x03aaw, but may, of course, be used to set a different value.
The Library has been tested using programs compiled with Microsoft C++ which sets the floating point control word to double precision. Other environments may set the floating point control word to extended precision, e.g. Excel and gcc. In almost all cases this is not a problem but in some rare cases, in order to obtain consistent behaviour the user may wish to use x03aaw directly before entering any other Library function in order to restore the mode of operation to double precision.
A corollary of the behaviour of these two functions is that they may also be used as a "get and set" pair, with x03aaw used to get the value of the floating-point control word on entry, and x03aax used to set a new value (or restore the original value), but note the "side-effect" of calling x03aaw, namely that this will set the control word to double precision.
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