Ndarray - STYPE

[tjad]

Mainly contains the STYPE work in progress . #51

[tjad]

The code looks clean to me, changing no existing functionality. However, upon addition of this code, the functionality of NDArray breaks such that initialization of NDArray fills with random values when using .zeros, .ones, .array etc, it is also no longer possible to make assignments to the array correctly. It is as if the array handle is bad.

You will notice there are no code changes, only additions. The closest code change is addition of a local variable mStorageType.

To reproduce, checkout code and run in IRB

require 'mxnet'

a = MXNet::NDArray.ones(5)

[-1.80243e+08, 4.57118e-41, -1.80256e+08, 4.57118e-41, 0] <MXNet::NDArray 5 @cpu(0)>

Whichever initializer I use, the result is similar.

[mrkn]

@tjad This pull-request consists of different-purpose changes. Could you please separate them into multiple single-purpose pull-requests?

And, please remove the commit 7a00289.
rb_gc_mark should be called during GC marking phase.

[mrkn]

@tjad I'll work on preparing the master branch for simplifying this pull-request by picking some commits in this pull-request this weekend. After that, I want you to rebase this branch onto the latest master.

[tjad]

@mrkn Sounds like a plan. And thanks!