Errata PhD Thesis of Aart Bik

• Compiler Support for Sparse Matrix Computations. ISBN 90-9009442-3, NUGI 855, Leiden University, 1996.

• MT1: A Sparse Compiler.

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PhD Thesis Errata

• page 73: In reference [235], the 'p' is missing before 30--40.
• page 87: In figure 4.14, a bold-face line between 2 and 3 is missing, while there should not be space in between 7 and 8.
• page 100: ... as actual arguments IS replaced ...
• page 106: In the 8th line from below, the '.' should be a ','.
• page 137: The call 'stack()' should be 'push()'.
• page 142: O(N log N) should be O(\tau log N).
• page 145: Only in this manner, the the .... => 'the the' should be 'the'.
• page 148--161: The reshaping method can be simply improved in case scalar-wise access patterns results in a d-nested loop (with d>2) by recursively applying the reshaping method to the (d-1)-nested loop for all occurrences with scalar-wise access patterns.
• page 155: extended completion METHOD is used.
• page 160: In figure 7.3, the second I_2-axis should be thick.
• page 191: Keyword PROCEDURE should be SUBROUTINE.
• page 195: 'on hand hand' => 'on one hand'.
• page 196: Starting at the code fragment 'IF (.NOT. SWT(...', all subsequent occurrences of e' must be replaced by f' (since the f-tag denotes the index information).
• page 196: may be omitted for a right-hand side occurrence ... should be ... LEFT-hand side ...
• page 199: Second S_1 in IF-statement should be S_2.
• page 202: ... for initializing general SPARSE row-wise storage ...
• page 211: ... of general sparse row-wise OR static dense ...
• page 218: In the first program fragment, all occurrences of SP_20 should be SAP_20.
• page 223: In Sparse Back 'IF ((I+1...' should be 'IF (I+1...'.
• page 228: VAL_G should be VAL_W.
• page 240: TMP__ should be TEMP__.
• page 241: All occurrences of SP_10 and SWT_10 should be SAP_20 and SWT_20.
• page 242: All occurrences of X and Y should be replaced by B (vectors are computed in place).
• page 277/278: Dr. Duff does not work at the Leiden University, as incorrectly stated in the references [74] and [81]. I apologize for this cut-and-paste error.
• There are (obvious) typos in references [74,81,87,88,97,123,160,192,208,220].