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E.3 Compiling Octave with 64-bit Indexing

Note: the following only applies to systems that have 64-bit pointers. Configuring Octave with --enable-64 cannot magically make a 32-bit system have a 64-bit address space.

On 64-bit systems, Octave uses 64-bit integers for indexing arrays by default. If the configure script determines that your BLAS library uses 32-bit integers, then operations using the following libraries are limited to arrays with dimensions that are smaller than 2^{31} elements:

Additionally, the following libraries use int internally, so maximum problem sizes are always limited:

Except for GLPK and Qhull, these libraries may also be configured to use 64-bit integers, but most systems do not provide packages built this way. If you wish to experiment with large arrays, the following information may be helpful.

The following instructions were tested with the development version of Octave and GCC 4.3.4 on an x86_64 Debian system and may be out of date now. Please report any problems or corrections on the Octave bug tracker.

The versions listed below are the versions used for testing. If newer versions of these packages are available, you should try to use them, although there may be some differences.

All libraries and header files will be installed in subdirectories of $prefix64 (you must choose the location of this directory).


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