1 namespace Eigen { 2 3 /** \page TopicPreprocessorDirectives Preprocessor directives 4 5 You can control some aspects of %Eigen by defining the preprocessor tokens using \c \#define. These macros 6 should be defined before any %Eigen headers are included. Often they are best set in the project options. 7 8 This page lists the preprocesor tokens recognised by %Eigen. 9 10 \eigenAutoToc 11 12 13 \section TopicPreprocessorDirectivesMajor Macros with major effects 14 15 These macros have a major effect and typically break the API (Application Programming Interface) and/or the 16 ABI (Application Binary Interface). This can be rather dangerous: if parts of your program are compiled with 17 one option, and other parts (or libraries that you use) are compiled with another option, your program may 18 fail to link or exhibit subtle bugs. Nevertheless, these options can be useful for people who know what they 19 are doing. 20 21 - \b EIGEN2_SUPPORT - if defined, enables the Eigen2 compatibility mode. This is meant to ease the transition 22 of Eigen2 to Eigen3 (see \ref Eigen2ToEigen3). Not defined by default. 23 - \b EIGEN2_SUPPORT_STAGEnn_xxx (for various values of nn and xxx) - staged migration path from Eigen2 to 24 Eigen3; see \ref Eigen2SupportModes. 25 - \b EIGEN_DEFAULT_DENSE_INDEX_TYPE - the type for column and row indices in matrices, vectors and array 26 (DenseBase::Index). Set to \c std::ptrdiff_t by default. 27 - \b EIGEN_DEFAULT_IO_FORMAT - the IOFormat to use when printing a matrix if no %IOFormat is specified. 28 Defaults to the %IOFormat constructed by the default constructor IOFormat::IOFormat(). 29 - \b EIGEN_INITIALIZE_MATRICES_BY_ZERO - if defined, all entries of newly constructed matrices and arrays are 30 initialized to zero, as are new entries in matrices and arrays after resizing. Not defined by default. 31 - \b EIGEN_INITIALIZE_MATRICES_BY_NAN - if defined, all entries of newly constructed matrices and arrays are 32 initialized to NaN, as are new entries in matrices and arrays after resizing. This option is especially 33 useful for debugging purpose, though a memory tool like <a href="http://valgrind.org/">valgrind</a> is 34 preferable. Not defined by default. 35 - \b EIGEN_NO_AUTOMATIC_RESIZING - if defined, the matrices (or arrays) on both sides of an assignment 36 <tt>a = b</tt> have to be of the same size; otherwise, %Eigen automatically resizes \c a so that it is of 37 the correct size. Not defined by default. 38 39 40 \section TopicPreprocessorDirectivesAssertions Assertions 41 42 The %Eigen library contains many assertions to guard against programming errors, both at compile time and at 43 run time. However, these assertions do cost time and can thus be turned off. 44 45 - \b EIGEN_NO_DEBUG - disables %Eigen's assertions if defined. Not defined by default, unless the 46 \c NDEBUG macro is defined (this is a standard C++ macro which disables all asserts). 47 - \b EIGEN_NO_STATIC_ASSERT - if defined, compile-time static assertions are replaced by runtime assertions; 48 this saves compilation time. Not defined by default. 49 - \b eigen_assert - macro with one argument that is used inside %Eigen for assertions. By default, it is 50 basically defined to be \c assert, which aborts the program if the assertion is violated. Redefine this 51 macro if you want to do something else, like throwing an exception. 52 - \b EIGEN_MPL2_ONLY - disable non MPL2 compatible features, or in other words disable the features which 53 are still under the LGPL. 54 55 56 \section TopicPreprocessorDirectivesPerformance Alignment, vectorization and performance tweaking 57 58 - \b EIGEN_MALLOC_ALREADY_ALIGNED - Can be set to 0 or 1 to tell whether default system malloc already 59 returns aligned buffers. In not defined, then this information is automatically deduced from the compiler 60 and system preprocessor tokens. 61 - \b EIGEN_DONT_ALIGN - disables alignment completely. %Eigen will not try to align its objects and does not 62 expect that any objects passed to it are aligned. This will turn off vectorization. Not defined by default. 63 - \b EIGEN_DONT_ALIGN_STATICALLY - disables alignment of arrays on the stack. Not defined by default, unless 64 \c EIGEN_DONT_ALIGN is defined. 65 - \b EIGEN_DONT_PARALLELIZE - if defined, this disables multi-threading. This is only relevant if you enabled OpenMP. 66 See \ref TopicMultiThreading for details. 67 - \b EIGEN_DONT_VECTORIZE - disables explicit vectorization when defined. Not defined by default, unless 68 alignment is disabled by %Eigen's platform test or the user defining \c EIGEN_DONT_ALIGN. 69 - \b EIGEN_FAST_MATH - enables some optimizations which might affect the accuracy of the result. This currently 70 enables the SSE vectorization of sin() and cos(), and speedups sqrt() for single precision. Defined to 1 by default. 71 Define it to 0 to disable. 72 - \b EIGEN_UNROLLING_LIMIT - defines the size of a loop to enable meta unrolling. Set it to zero to disable 73 unrolling. The size of a loop here is expressed in %Eigen's own notion of "number of FLOPS", it does not 74 correspond to the number of iterations or the number of instructions. The default is value 100. 75 - \b EIGEN_STACK_ALLOCATION_LIMIT - defines the maximum bytes for a buffer to be allocated on the stack. For internal 76 temporary buffers, dynamic memory allocation is employed as a fall back. For fixed-size matrices or arrays, exceeding 77 this threshold raises a compile time assertion. Use 0 to set no limit. Default is 128 KB. 78 79 80 \section TopicPreprocessorDirectivesPlugins Plugins 81 82 It is possible to add new methods to many fundamental classes in %Eigen by writing a plugin. As explained in 83 the section \ref ExtendingMatrixBase, the plugin is specified by defining a \c EIGEN_xxx_PLUGIN macro. The 84 following macros are supported; none of them are defined by default. 85 86 - \b EIGEN_ARRAY_PLUGIN - filename of plugin for extending the Array class. 87 - \b EIGEN_ARRAYBASE_PLUGIN - filename of plugin for extending the ArrayBase class. 88 - \b EIGEN_CWISE_PLUGIN - filename of plugin for extending the Cwise class. 89 - \b EIGEN_DENSEBASE_PLUGIN - filename of plugin for extending the DenseBase class. 90 - \b EIGEN_DYNAMICSPARSEMATRIX_PLUGIN - filename of plugin for extending the DynamicSparseMatrix class. 91 - \b EIGEN_MATRIX_PLUGIN - filename of plugin for extending the Matrix class. 92 - \b EIGEN_MATRIXBASE_PLUGIN - filename of plugin for extending the MatrixBase class. 93 - \b EIGEN_PLAINOBJECTBASE_PLUGIN - filename of plugin for extending the PlainObjectBase class. 94 - \b EIGEN_QUATERNIONBASE_PLUGIN - filename of plugin for extending the QuaternionBase class. 95 - \b EIGEN_SPARSEMATRIX_PLUGIN - filename of plugin for extending the SparseMatrix class. 96 - \b EIGEN_SPARSEMATRIXBASE_PLUGIN - filename of plugin for extending the SparseMatrixBase class. 97 - \b EIGEN_SPARSEVECTOR_PLUGIN - filename of plugin for extending the SparseVector class. 98 - \b EIGEN_TRANSFORM_PLUGIN - filename of plugin for extending the Transform class. 99 - \b EIGEN_FUNCTORS_PLUGIN - filename of plugin for adding new functors and specializations of functor_traits. 100 101 102 \section TopicPreprocessorDirectivesDevelopers Macros for Eigen developers 103 104 These macros are mainly meant for people developing %Eigen and for testing purposes. Even though, they might be useful for power users and the curious for debugging and testing purpose, they \b should \b not \b be \b used by real-word code. 105 106 - \b EIGEN_DEFAULT_TO_ROW_MAJOR - when defined, the default storage order for matrices becomes row-major 107 instead of column-major. Not defined by default. 108 - \b EIGEN_INTERNAL_DEBUGGING - if defined, enables assertions in %Eigen's internal routines. This is useful 109 for debugging %Eigen itself. Not defined by default. 110 - \b EIGEN_NO_MALLOC - if defined, any request from inside the %Eigen to allocate memory from the heap 111 results in an assertion failure. This is useful to check that some routine does not allocate memory 112 dynamically. Not defined by default. 113 - \b EIGEN_RUNTIME_NO_MALLOC - if defined, a new switch is introduced which can be turned on and off by 114 calling <tt>set_is_malloc_allowed(bool)</tt>. If malloc is not allowed and %Eigen tries to allocate memory 115 dynamically anyway, an assertion failure results. Not defined by default. 116 117 */ 118 119 } 120
