The Oracle Developer Studio Performance Library routines that are based on LAPACK support the expanded capabilities and improved algorithms in LAPACK 3.5.0, but are completely compatible with both LAPACK 1.x, LAPACK 2.x, LAPACK 3.x, and LAPACK 4.x libraries. Maintaining compatibility with previous LAPACK versions:
Reduces linking errors due to changes in subroutine names or argument lists.
Ensures results are consistent with results generated with previous LAPACK versions.
Minimizes programs terminating due to differences between argument lists.