Documentation and Software Conventions

• Design and Documentation of Argument Lists
  • Structure of the Documentation
  • Order of Arguments
  • Argument Descriptions
  • Option Arguments
  • Problem Dimensions
  • Array Arguments
  • Work Arrays
  • Error Handling and the Diagnostic Argument INFO
• Determining the Block Size for Block Algorithms
• Matrix Storage Schemes
  • Conventional Storage
  • Packed Storage
  • Band Storage
  • Tridiagonal and Bidiagonal Matrices
  • Unit Triangular Matrices
  • Real Diagonal Elements of Complex Matrices
• Representation of Orthogonal or Unitary Matrices