Intel® Math Kernel Library 11.3 Update 4 Developer Guide
Directly calling the Intel MKL kernels has the following limitations:
If the MKL_DIRECT_CALL or MKL_DIRECT_CALL_SEQ macro is used, Intel MKL may skip error checking.
With a limited error checking, you are responsible for checking the correctness of function parameters to avoid unsafe and incorrect code execution.
The feature is only available for ?gemm, ?gemm3m, ?syrk, ?trsm, ?axpy, and ?dot functions.
Intel MKL Verbose mode, Conditional Numerical Reproducibility, and BLAS95 interfaces are not supported.
GNU* Fortran compilers are not supported.
For C applications, you must enable mixing declarations and user code by providing the -std=c99 option for Intel® compilers.
In a fixed format Fortran source code compiled with PGI compilers, the lines containing Intel MKL functions must end at least seven columns before the line ending column, usually, in a column with the index not greater than 72 – 7 = 65.
The direct call feature substitutes the names of Intel MKL functions with longer counterparts, which can cause the lines to exceed the column limit for a fixed format Fortran source code compiled with PGI compilers. Because the compilers ignore any part of the line that exceeds the limit, the behavior of the program can be unpredictable.
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