Comp Org assignment 1
DUE DATE: 8 a.m., Tuesday, February 2nd.
For this INDIVIDUAL assignment (no groups allowed) you will write a 2-D Matrix Swap and Multiplication System on a Linux computer. The purpose of this program is to give you experience with C programming with special emphasis on pointers and memory allocation. A second objective is to give you experience in working with the Unix/Linux operating system from the shell/command line prospective.
For a tutorial on basic matrix multiplication (if you've forgotten), please goto the following:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matrix_multiplication
Here you will read into memory an NxN array/matrix of doubles, compute the
swap of that matrix and then compute the multiplication of the original
matrix. An example matrix will be provided for you.
The swap matrix operation is implemented as follows: the ith column is
exchanged/swapped with the contents of the i+2 column. So, column 0 is
swapped with column 2 and column 1 is swapped with column 3 and so on until
all columns are swapped upto column N-1 for an NxN matrix.
The detail specifications are as follows:
- Use your favorite Linux editor (nano, vi or emacs) to view the "mm.c" file. Nano is easiest to learn while emacs has much more power.
- You must WRITE the functions given in the template.
- Each routine indicates what needs to be done in comments.
- You cannot under any circumstances modify the main function or the function prototypes of any of the other routines. You have to use the template that is given to you.
- Correctness: 85%
- allocates and frees memory correctly.
- Computes matrix swap correctly.
- Computes matrix multiplication correctly.
- Checks for return values on all functions.
- Documentation/Comments: 15% (i.e., liberal use of comments so we can understand your program).