Guidelines for contributing/maintaining code in ScaLAPACK

Here are some of the tools and "tricks of the trade" that I use to maintain ScaLAPACK.

Since 1999, ScaLAPACK has been maintained in cvs. ~susan/CVS/SCALAPACK/.
Contributed code must be in ScaLAPACK coding style.
ScaLAPACK is backward compatible. If you need to change the calling sequence to an existing routine, or its amount of workspace, then you MUST create a new routine. You cannot make any change that would break a user's existing code calling ScaLAPACK.
Ftnchek (syntax checker for ANSI Fortran 77)
http://www.dsm.fordham.edu/~ftnchek
The most useful options to ftnchek are:
```
      ftnchek -declare -noextern -portability -library *.f > ~/listing
    
```
For example, if I want to check the s.p.complex and d.p.complex EIG codes (source and testers), I would type:
```
    alias ftnchek 'ftnchek -declare -noextern -portability -library'
    cd SCALAPACK/TESTING/EIG
    ftnchek pc*.f c*.f pz*.f z*.f ../../SRC/pc*.f ../../SRC/c*.f \
            ../../SRC/pz*.f ../../SRC/z*.f ~/eig.listing
    
```
and then view the listing file for errors...
Be aware that d.p.complex is not part of the ANSI standard, so it won't recognize a lot of the COMPLEX*16 stuff, and will thus give a lot of extraneous error messages.
NAGWare Fortran 77 tools (nag_decs, etc)
http://www.nag.co.uk/nagware/NQ.asp
These tools polish the new codes so that they conform to to the ScaLAPACK style. I use the same for LAPACK.
Portability testing (compiler flags for subscript checking and uninitialized variables...)
```
    SGI IRIX64

      f77 -g -DEBUG:subscript_check=ON -trapuv *.f

    ALPHA Tru64

      f77 -C=all *.f

    AIX

      xlf -C *.f

    Solaris

      f77 -C *.f 
```
After getting ScaLAPACK to run solely on each of these machine types, you then must spawn heterogeneous jobs mixing Alphas and IRIX machines, and so on. For hints of known heterogeneous failures, consult the errata.html.
You can also try native MPI versus MPICH in testing.
If the code passes these tests, then we say that it can be included in ScaLAPACK.
Documentation. Installation Guide and Users' Guide are maintained in LaTeX. Must be able to generate ps, pdf, and html version (using latex2html).