Users guide

Contents:

• The PNI library stack
  • How to read this manual
• Installation
  • Installing pre-built binary packages
  • Install from sources
• Using libpnicore
  • Include files
  • Building and linking
• Data Types
  • Compile time type identification
  • Identifying types at runtime
  • The binary type
  • The none type
  • The bool_t type
  • Numeric type conversion
• Multidimensional arrays
  • Array construction and inquery
  • Linear access to data
  • Multidimensional access
  • Array views and slicing
  • Arithmetic expressions
  • Example: matrix-vector and matrix-matrix multiplication
• Type erasures
  • The value type erasures
  • The value_ref type erasure
  • Type erasures for arrays
  • An example: reading tabular ASCII data
• Program configuration utilities
  • Command line options and arguments
  • Configuration files
  • Using configuration files and command line options together
• Benchmarks
  • Iterator benchmarks
  • Multidimensional index access
  • Arithmetics