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+/*
+
+Copyright (C) 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1999, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005,
+              2007 John W. Eaton
+
+This file is part of Octave.
+
+Octave is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
+under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the
+Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at your
+option) any later version.
+
+Octave is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT
+ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or
+FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU General Public License
+for more details.
+
+You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+along with Octave; see the file COPYING.  If not, see
+<http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
+*/
+
+#ifdef HAVE_CONFIG_H
+#include <config.h>
+#endif
+
+#include "floatLU.h"
+#include "f77-fcn.h"
+#include "lo-error.h"
+
+// Instantiate the base LU class for the types we need.
+
+#include <base-lu.h>
+#include <base-lu.cc>
+
+template class base_lu <FloatMatrix, float, FloatMatrix, float>;
+
+// Define the constructor for this particular derivation.
+
+extern "C"
+{
+  F77_RET_T
+  F77_FUNC (sgetrf, SGETRF) (const octave_idx_type&, const octave_idx_type&, float*,
+			     const octave_idx_type&, octave_idx_type*, octave_idx_type&);
+}
+
+FloatLU::FloatLU (const FloatMatrix& a)
+{
+  octave_idx_type a_nr = a.rows ();
+  octave_idx_type a_nc = a.cols ();
+  octave_idx_type mn = (a_nr < a_nc ? a_nr : a_nc);
+
+  ipvt.resize (mn);
+  octave_idx_type *pipvt = ipvt.fortran_vec ();
+
+  a_fact = a;
+  float *tmp_data = a_fact.fortran_vec ();
+
+  octave_idx_type info = 0;
+
+  F77_XFCN (sgetrf, SGETRF, (a_nr, a_nc, tmp_data, a_nr, pipvt, info));
+
+  ipvt -= static_cast<octave_idx_type> (1);
+}
+
+/*
+;;; Local Variables: ***
+;;; mode: C++ ***
+;;; End: ***
+*/