This release delivers improvements made to the build system and internal structures. The main purpose is to continuously deliver smooth build and run experience for latest OS environments.
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IMPROVEMENTS / CHANGES
- Fortran: enabled libxsmm_ptr* to eventually return C_NULL_PTR.
- Avoid treating Spack environment as maintainer build (apply SSE4 flags).
- Renamed structure-of-array (SOA) dense routines into "packed".
- Internal preparation for upcoming features (memory allocation).
- Improved build system (most recent OS environments).
FIXES
- Precondition for working around missing _Float128 definition (#339).
- Conceptionally avoid accessing a zero-sized array (Fortran interface).
- Corrected number of scratch-memory pools (LIBXSMM_VERBOSE).