Naming Conventions for Sparse BLAS
Routines
Similar to BLAS, the names of Sparse BLAS subprograms
have prefixes that determine the data type involved:
s
and
d
for single-
and double-precision real;
c
and
z
for single-
and double-precision complex respectively.
If a Sparse BLAS routine is an extension of a "dense"
one, the subprogram name is formed by appending the suffix
i
(standing for
indexed
) to the name of the
corresponding "dense" subprogram. For example, the Sparse BLAS routine
saxpyi
corresponds to
the BLAS routine
saxpy
, and the Sparse
BLAS function
cdotci
corresponds to
the BLAS function
cdotc
.