* get rid of BlockReturnType: it was not needed, and code was not always using it consistently anyway
* add topRows(), leftCols(), bottomRows(), rightCols()
* add corners unit-test covering all of that
* adapt docs, expand "porting from eigen 2 to 3"
* adapt Eigen2Support
- Updated unit tests to check above constructor.
- In the compute() method of decompositions: Made temporary matrices/vectors class members to avoid heap allocations during compute() (when dynamic matrices are used, of course).
These changes can speed up decomposition computation time when a solver instance is used to solve multiple same-sized problems. An added benefit is that the compute() method can now be invoked in contexts were heap allocations are forbidden, such as in real-time control loops.
CAVEAT: Not all of the decompositions in the Eigenvalues module have a heap-allocation-free compute() method. A future patch may address this issue, but some required API changes need to be incorporated first.
* adapt Eigenvalues module to the new rule that the RowMajorBit must have the proper value for vectors
* Fix RowMajorBit in ei_traits<ProductBase>
* Fix vectorizability logic in CoeffBasedProduct
NOTE: The ComplexEigenSolver class currently _does_ allocate (line 135 of Eigenvalues/ComplexEigenSolver.h), but the reason appears to be in the implementation of matrix-matrix products, and not in the decomposition itself.
The nomalloc unit test has been extended to verify that decompositions do not allocate when max sizes are specified. There are currently two workarounds to prevent the test from failing (see comments in test/nomalloc.cpp), both of which are related to matrix products that allocate on the stack.
* use them (big simplification in Assign.h)
* axe (Inner|Outer)StrideAtCompileTime that were just introduced
* ei_int_if_dynamic now asserts that the size is the expected one: adapt to that in Block.h
* add rowStride() / colStride() in DenseBase
* implement innerStride() / outerStride() everywhere needed
Finally the createRandomMatrixOfRank() function is renamed to createRandomPIMatrixOfRank, where PI stands for 'partial isometry', that is, a matrix whose singular values are 0 or 1.
(fixes lu test failures when testing solve())
* LU test: set appropriate threshold and limit the number of times that a specially tricky test
is run. (fixes lu test failures when testing rank()).
* Tests: rename createRandomMatrixOfRank to createRandomProjectionOfRank
division instead of RCPPS-followed-by-Newton-Raphson. The rationale for that is
that elsewhere in Eigen we dont allow ourselves this approximation (which throws
2 bits of mantissa), so there's no reason we should allow it here.
* inverse tests: use createRandomMatrixOfRank, use more strict precision
* tests: createRandomMatrixOfRank: support 1x1 matrices
* determinant: nest the xpr
* Minor: add comment
* add a new Eigen2Support module including Cwise, Flagged, and some other deprecated stuff
* add a few cwiseXxx functions
* adapt a few modules to use cwiseXxx instead of the .cwise() prefix
