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\chapter{Miscellaneous}

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\section{Constants}

PLASMA defines a few constant parameters, such as {\em PlasmaTrans, PlasmaNoTrans, PlasmaUpper,
PlasmaLower}, etc., equivalent of CBLAS and LAPACK parameters. The naming and numbering of these
parameters follow the one of the CBLAS from Netlib (\url{http://www.netlib.org/blas/blast-forum/cblas.tgz})
and the C Interface to LAPACK from Netlib (\url{http://www.netlib.org/lapack/lapwrapc/}).

PLASMA includes a macro, {\em lapack\_const()}, which takes PLASMA's (integer) constants and returns
LAPACK's (string) constants. From the standpoint of LAPACK, only the first letter of each string is significant.
Nevertheless, the macro returns meaningful strings, such as {\em ``No transpose'', ``Transpose'', ``Upper'',
``Lower''), etc.

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