HomerReid/scuff-em — pull request #6 by jfeist (2014-10-29 21:08:33+00:00)
Title: Libhmat updates

The first commit allows libhmat to support matrices with a total number of items larger than a 32-bit `int` can hold, by using `size_t` in strategic places. Note that NR and NC have to be `int` for the BLAS/LAPACK interface, so I didn't just replace those.
As getting `NumEntries` is the place where casting to `size_t` is needed most often, I moved the one-line statement for calculating that into an inline function, which also makes the code a bit cleaner in some routines. I made sure to put its value into a temporary variable when it's used inside loops.

The second commit just adds a second optional argument `takedatandownership` to the HMatrix copy constructor, which can be used to avoid actually copying the data, but passing ownership of the data to the new HMatrix. This allowed to avoid a copy in the python interface at some point, but I'm not sure if it's still necessary (or if I can find the version of the python interface where I used it...). Since it doesn't take away any functionality or change the interface, I added it to the pull request, but it could be taken out and shelved for later.