[J3] New reference BLAS NRM2 routines

[Steve Lionel]

On 10/9/2018 7:52 AM, Robert Corbett via J3 wrote:
> The article does not
> give enough information to allow
> a reader to check the authors'
> assertion that the Intel compiler
> does not honor parentheses in
> optimizations.

But indeed the Intel compiler doesn't, unless the option -assume 
protect_parens is supplied. There was a lot of debate on this topic 
among the Intel teams. The -standard-semantics option, which turns on a 
number of behaviors whose defaults differ from the standard, includes this.

Steve