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/*
 * shape.h
 *
 *  Created on: Dec 28, 2015
 *      Author: agibsonccc
 */

#ifndef SHAPE_H_
#define SHAPE_H_

#include <cstring>
#include <cstdio>
#include "system/dll.h"
#include "system/nd4jmalloc.h"
#include "math/templatemath.h"
#include "../helpers/logger.h"
#include "system/pointercast.h"
#include "../cnpy/cnpy.h"
#include <system/op_boilerplate.h>

#define MAX_DIMENSION 0x7fffffff
#define MAX_NUM_THREADS  1024
#define MAX_RANK 32
#define MAX_SHAPEINFOLENGTH 2*MAX_RANK+4
#define MAX_COORD 3
#define PREALLOC_SIZE 33554432
#ifdef __CUDACC__
#include <cuda.h>
#include <cuda_runtime.h>
#endif


#ifdef __CUDACC__
#define INLINEDEF inline
#else
#define INLINEDEF inline
#endif

#include "system/pairwise_util.h"
#include <stdint.h>
#include <array/ArrayOptions.h>

typedef unsigned int uint;

namespace shape {

/**
 * Shape information approximating
 * the information on an ndarray
 */
    struct ND4J_EXPORT ShapeInformation {
        _CUDA_HD ShapeInformation(Nd4jLong* shape_ = nullptr, Nd4jLong *stride_ = nullptr, char order_ = 0, int rank_ = 0, int offset_ = 0, int elementWiseStride_ = 0)
                : shape(shape_), stride(stride_), order(order_), rank(rank_), offset(offset_), elementWiseStride(elementWiseStride_)
        {}

        Nd4jLong *shape;
        Nd4jLong *stride;
        char order;
        int rank;
        int offset;
        int elementWiseStride;
    };

/**
 * Indexing information
 * for bounds checking
 */
    struct ND4J_EXPORT CurrentIndexing {
        int numElementsPerThread;
        int blockStartingIndex;
        int startingThreadIndex;
        int endingThreadIndex;

    };



    ND4J_EXPORT _CUDA_HD bool shapeEquals(const int shape1Rank, const Nd4jLong *shape1, const int shape2Rank, const Nd4jLong *shape2);

    ND4J_EXPORT _CUDA_HD const Nd4jLong* detachShape(const Nd4jLong *originalShape);

    ND4J_EXPORT _CUDA_HD Nd4jLong* copyShape(Nd4jLong const* originalShape);

    ND4J_EXPORT _CUDA_HD bool shapeEquals(const Nd4jLong *shapeInfo1, const Nd4jLong *shapeInfo2);

    ND4J_EXPORT _CUDA_HD bool shapeEquals(const Nd4jLong *shapeInfo1, const Nd4jLong *shapeInfo2, const Nd4jLong *shapeInfo3);

    ND4J_EXPORT _CUDA_HD bool strideEquals(int const shape1Rank,Nd4jLong const* shape1,int const shape2Rank, Nd4jLong const* shape2);

    ND4J_EXPORT _CUDA_HD bool strideEquals(Nd4jLong const* shapeInfo1, Nd4jLong const* shapeInfo2);

    ND4J_EXPORT _CUDA_HD bool strideEquals(Nd4jLong const* stride1,int const rank1, Nd4jLong const* stride2, int const rank2);

    ND4J_EXPORT _CUDA_HD bool equalsSoft(const Nd4jLong *shapeA, const Nd4jLong *shapeB);

    ND4J_EXPORT _CUDA_HD bool equalsTypesAndShapesSoft(const Nd4jLong *shapeA, const Nd4jLong *shapeB);

    ND4J_EXPORT _CUDA_HD bool equalsStrict(const Nd4jLong *shapeA, const Nd4jLong *shapeB);

    // returns true if ranks, shapes and strides are the same
    ND4J_EXPORT _CUDA_HD bool haveSameShapeAndStrides(const Nd4jLong *shapeInfo1, const Nd4jLong *shapeInfo2);
    ND4J_EXPORT _CUDA_HD bool haveSameShapeAndStrides(const Nd4jLong *shapeInfo1, const Nd4jLong *shapeInfo2, const Nd4jLong *shapeInfo3);

    ND4J_EXPORT _CUDA_HD int sizeAt(const Nd4jLong *shapeInfo, const int dim);
    ND4J_EXPORT _CUDA_HD Nd4jLong strideAt(const Nd4jLong *shapeInfo, const int dim);

    template <typename T>
    ND4J_EXPORT _CUDA_HD void fill(T* buffer, T value, Nd4jLong length);

    ND4J_EXPORT _CUDA_HD void traceNew(int id);


    ND4J_EXPORT _CUDA_HD int tadIndexForLinear(int linearIndex, int tadLength);

    ND4J_EXPORT _CUDA_HD Nd4jLong tadLength(const Nd4jLong *shapeInfo, int *dimension, int dimensionLength);

    ND4J_EXPORT _CUDA_HD bool canReshape(const int oldRank, Nd4jLong* oldShape, const int newRank, Nd4jLong* newShape, bool isFOrder);

    ND4J_EXPORT _CUDA_HD bool reshapeC(const Nd4jLong* oldShapeInfo, const char newOrder, const int newRank, const Nd4jLong* newShape, Nd4jLong* newShapeInfo);
    /**
    * newShapeInfo contains rank, shape and order only, no strides/ews/type
    */
    ND4J_EXPORT _CUDA_HD bool reshapeC(const Nd4jLong* oldShapeInfo, Nd4jLong* newShapeInfo);

    /**
    * Get the shape info buffer
    * for the given rank and shape.
    */
    ND4J_EXPORT _CUDA_HD Nd4jLong *shapeBuffer(int rank, sd::DataType dtype, Nd4jLong const* shape);

    ND4J_EXPORT _CUDA_HD Nd4jLong *shapeBuffer(int rank, sd::DataType dtype, Nd4jLong const* shape, Nd4jLong *buffer);

    /**
    * Get the shape info buffer
    * for the given rank and shape.
     */
    ND4J_EXPORT _CUDA_HD Nd4jLong *shapeBufferFortran(int rank, sd::DataType dtype, Nd4jLong const* shape);

    ND4J_EXPORT _CUDA_HD Nd4jLong *shapeBufferFortran(int rank, sd::DataType dtype, Nd4jLong const* shape, Nd4jLong *output);

#ifdef __CUDACC__

    __device__ ND4J_EXPORT Nd4jLong *cuMalloc(Nd4jLong *buffer, long size);
#endif



/**
 * Computes the standard packed array strides for a given shape.
 *
 * @param shape    the shape of a matrix:
 * @param startNum the start number for the strides
 * @return the strides for a matrix of n dimensions
 */
    ND4J_EXPORT _CUDA_HD Nd4jLong * calcStridesFortran(Nd4jLong const* shape, int rank);

    ND4J_EXPORT _CUDA_HD Nd4jLong * calcStridesFortran(Nd4jLong const* shape, int rank, Nd4jLong* ret);

/**
 * Computes the standard packed array strides for a given shape.
 *
 * @param shape    the shape of a matrix:
 * @param startNum the start number for the strides
 * @return the strides for a matrix of n dimensions
 */

    ND4J_EXPORT _CUDA_HD Nd4jLong* calcStrides(Nd4jLong const *shape, int rank);

    ND4J_EXPORT _CUDA_HD Nd4jLong* calcStrides(Nd4jLong const *shape, int rank, Nd4jLong* ret);

    ND4J_EXPORT _CUDA_HD void updateStrides(Nd4jLong *shape, const char order);
    ND4J_EXPORT _CUDA_HD void updateStrides(const int rank, const Nd4jLong *shapeOnly, Nd4jLong *stridesOnly, const char order);


// check whether input dimensions are permuted, not permuted dimensions order have to be 0,....,rank-1
    template <typename T>
    ND4J_EXPORT _CUDA_HD bool isDimPermuted(const T* dimensions, const int dimSize);

/**
 * Computes the standard packed array strides for a given shape.
 *
 * @param shape    the shape of a matrix:
 * @param startNum the start number for the strides
 * @return the strides for a matrix of n dimensions
 */
    ND4J_EXPORT _CUDA_HD Nd4jLong* calcStridesFortran(Nd4jLong const *shape, int rank, int startNum);

    ND4J_EXPORT _CUDA_HD Nd4jLong* calcStridesFortran(Nd4jLong const *shape, int rank, int startNum, Nd4jLong* ret);

/**
 * Computes the standard packed array strides for a given shape.
 *
 * @param shape    the shape of a matrix:
 * @param startNum the start number for the strides
 * @return the strides for a matrix of n dimensions
 */
    ND4J_EXPORT _CUDA_HD Nd4jLong* calcStrides(Nd4jLong const* shape, int rank, int startNum);

    ND4J_EXPORT _CUDA_HD Nd4jLong* calcStrides(Nd4jLong const *shape, int rank, int startNum, Nd4jLong* ret);

/**
 * @param toCopy the shape to copy
 * @return a copy of the original struct
 */
    ND4J_EXPORT _CUDA_HD ShapeInformation *shapeCopy( ShapeInformation *toCopy);


    ND4J_EXPORT _CUDA_HD bool strideDescendingCAscendingF(const Nd4jLong *shapeBuffer);

    ND4J_EXPORT _CUDA_HD bool isContiguous(const Nd4jLong* shapeInfo);


/**
 * copy-past from java hasDefaultStridesForShape function
 * check whether array is not permuted and has contiguous elements in memory
 */
    ND4J_EXPORT _CUDA_HD bool areStridesDefault(const Nd4jLong* shapeInfo);


/**
 * Compute the element wise stride
 * for a given shape/stride configuration
 * @param rank the rank of the shape/stride
 * @param shape the shape
 * @param stride the stride
 * @param isFOrder 0 or 1 for whether the array is f
 * ordered or not
 * @return 0 if there is no element wise stride the
 * element wise stride of reshape(1,length) otherwise
 */
    ND4J_EXPORT _CUDA_HD int computeElementWiseStride(int rank, Nd4jLong const* shape, Nd4jLong const* stride, int isFOrder);

/**
 * Compute the element wise stride
 * for a given shape/stride configuration
 * @param rank the rank of the shape/stride
 * @param shape the shape
 * @param stride the stride
 * @param isFOrder 0 or 1 for whether the array is f
 * ordered or not
 * @return 0 if there is no element wise stride the
 * element wise stride of reshape(1,length) otherwise
 */
    ND4J_EXPORT _CUDA_HD int computeElementWiseStride(int rank, Nd4jLong const* shape, Nd4jLong const* stride, int isFOrder, Nd4jLong const* dimension, int dimensionLength);

    ND4J_EXPORT _CUDA_HD Nd4jLong *shapeInfoOnlyShapeAndStride(Nd4jLong const* shapeInfo, Nd4jLong *dimension, int dimensionLength,bool reverseCopyStride);

    ND4J_EXPORT _CUDA_HD Nd4jLong *shapeInfoOnlyShapeAndStride(const Nd4jLong *shapeInfo, Nd4jLong *dimension, int dimensionLength,bool reverseCopyStride, Nd4jLong *buffer);
/**
 *
 * @param length
 * @param shape
 * @param rearrange
 * @return
 */
    ND4J_EXPORT _CUDA_HD Nd4jLong *doPermuteSwap(int length, Nd4jLong *shape, int* rearrange);



/**
 * In place permute swap
 * @param length
 * @param shape
 * @param rearrange
 */
    ND4J_EXPORT _CUDA_HD void doPermuteSwap(int length, Nd4jLong **shape, int* rearrange);

    ND4J_EXPORT _CUDA_HD Nd4jLong *permuteShapeBuffer(Nd4jLong const* shapeBuffer, int* rearrange);

    ND4J_EXPORT _CUDA_HD void permuteShapeBufferInPlace(Nd4jLong *shapeBuffer, int* rearrange, Nd4jLong *out);

    ND4J_EXPORT _CUDA_HD void doPermuteShapeInfo(Nd4jLong *shapeBuffer, const int *rearrange, Nd4jLong len = -1);

    /**
     * Rearrange the permute indexes
     * according to which  dimensions are specified.
     *
     * For example, dimension is implicitly:
     * 0,1,2
     *
     * If you want to do a reduce along dimensions 0 and 1,
     * you need to permute the indexes to be:
     * 2,0,1
     *
     * which will give us the ability to ierate along an element
     * wise stride.
     */

    ND4J_EXPORT _CUDA_HD Nd4jLong* createPermuteIndexes(int originalRank, int *dimension,int dimensionLength);

    ND4J_EXPORT _CUDA_HD Nd4jLong* computeResultShape(const Nd4jLong *originalShapeBuffer, int *dimension,int dimensionLength);

    /**
     * This method does inplace transpose of given shapeBuffer
     *
     * @param shapeBuffer
     */
    ND4J_EXPORT _CUDA_HD void transposeInplace(Nd4jLong *shapeBuffer);


/**
 * Get the ordering for the device
 * @param length
 * @param shape
 * @param stride
 * @param elementStride
 * @return
 */
    ND4J_EXPORT _CUDA_HD char getOrder(int length, Nd4jLong *shape, Nd4jLong *stride, int elementStride);

/**
 * Ensure that every value in the re arrange
 * array is unique
 * @param arr
 * @param shape
 * @param arrLength
 * @param shapeLength
 * @return
 */
    template <typename T>
    ND4J_EXPORT _CUDA_HD int checkArrangeArray(T *arr, int arrLength, int shapeLength);

/**
 * Permute the shape information
 * @param info the shape information to permute
 * @param rearrange the order to re arrange
 * @param rank the rank of the rearrange array
 */
    ND4J_EXPORT _CUDA_HD void permute(ShapeInformation **info, int *rearrange, int rank);

/**
 * Returns whether the
 * given shape is a vector or not
 * @param shape the shape of the array
 * @param rank the rank of cthe shape
 */
    ND4J_EXPORT _CUDA_HD int isVector(Nd4jLong const* shape, int rank);


    /**
     * When 1 dimension is the whole length of the
     * array
     */
    ND4J_EXPORT _CUDA_HD int oneDimEqualToLength(Nd4jLong *shape, int rank);

    ND4J_EXPORT _CUDA_HD int oneDimEqualToLength(Nd4jLong *shapeInfo);

    ND4J_EXPORT _CUDA_HD int isVector(const Nd4jLong *shapeInfo);

    ND4J_EXPORT _CUDA_HD bool isLikeVector(Nd4jLong const* shapeInfo, int& posOfNonUnityDim);

    ND4J_EXPORT _CUDA_HD bool isCommonVector(const Nd4jLong *shapeInfo, int& posOfNonUnityDim);

    ND4J_EXPORT _CUDA_HD bool isRowVector(const Nd4jLong *shapeInfo);

    ND4J_EXPORT _CUDA_HD bool isColumnVector(Nd4jLong const* shapeInfo);

    /**
    * shape - input inShape is shape only, not shapeInfo
    * returns number of non-unity dimensions in inShape
    */
    ND4J_EXPORT _CUDA_HD int numOfNonUnitDims(const int rank, const Nd4jLong* inShape);

    /**
 * Returns whether the
 * given shape is a vector or not
 * @param shape the shape of the array
 * @param rank the rank of the shape
 */

    ND4J_EXPORT _CUDA_HD int isMatrix(Nd4jLong *shape, int rank);

    INLINEDEF _CUDA_HD int isMatrix(Nd4jLong *shapeInfo);
/**
 * Returns the shape portion of an information
 * buffer
 */
    ND4J_EXPORT _CUDA_HD Nd4jLong *shapeOf(Nd4jLong *shapeInfo);
    ND4J_EXPORT _CUDA_HD Nd4jLong *shapeOf(const Nd4jLong *shapeInfo);

/**
 * Return a copy of a buffer.
 * This buffer allocates memory
 * that must be freed elsewhere.
 */

    template <typename T>
    ND4J_EXPORT _CUDA_HD T* copyOf(Nd4jLong length, T const* toCopy);

    template <typename T>
    ND4J_EXPORT _CUDA_HD T* copyOf(Nd4jLong length, T const* toCopy, T *ret);

    /**
 * Return a copy of a buffer.
 * This buffer allocates memory
 * that must be freed elsewhere.
 */

    template <typename T>
    ND4J_EXPORT _CUDA_HD void copyTo(Nd4jLong length, T const* from, T *to);
    /**
* Return a copy of a buffer.
* This buffer allocates memory
* that must be freed elsewhere.
*/
    ND4J_EXPORT _CUDA_HD void copyTo(int length, Nd4jLong const* from, Nd4jLong *to, Nd4jLong *indexes);

/**
 * Permute the given strides
 * in the given rearrange order
 * @param toPermute the buffer to permute
 * @param shapeRank the length of the buffer to permute
 * @param rearrange the rearrange order (must be 0 based indexes
 * and all must be filled in)
 * @return the rearranged array
 */
    //ND4J_EXPORT _CUDA_HD Nd4jLong *permutedStrides(Nd4jLong *toPermute, int shapeRank, Nd4jLong *rearrange);

/**
 * Return the slice (shape + 1 in pointer arithmetic)
 * @param shape the shape to take the slice of
 * @return the shape array - the first entry
 */
    ND4J_EXPORT _CUDA_HD Nd4jLong *slice(Nd4jLong *shape);

    ND4J_EXPORT _CUDA_HD int slices(Nd4jLong *shapeBuffer);

    ND4J_EXPORT _CUDA_HD Nd4jLong *sliceOfShapeBuffer(Nd4jLong sliceIdx, Nd4jLong *shapeBuffer);
/**
 * Returns the length of the
 * shape information buffer:
 * rank * 2 + 3
 * @param rank the rank to get the shape
 * info length for
 * @return rank * 2 + 4
 */
    ND4J_EXPORT _CUDA_HD int shapeInfoLength(int rank);

    ND4J_EXPORT _CUDA_HD int shapeInfoLength(Nd4jLong* shapeInfo);

    ND4J_EXPORT _CUDA_HD int shapeInfoLength(const Nd4jLong* shapeInfo);

    ND4J_EXPORT _CUDA_HD size_t shapeInfoByteLength(int rank);

    ND4J_EXPORT _CUDA_HD size_t shapeInfoByteLength(const Nd4jLong* shapeInfo);

    ND4J_EXPORT _CUDA_HD size_t shapeInfoByteLength(const Nd4jLong* shapeInfo);

/**
 * Returns the rank portion of
 * an information buffer
 */
    ND4J_EXPORT _CUDA_HD int rank(const Nd4jLong *shapeInfo);
    ND4J_EXPORT _CUDA_HD int rank(const int *shapeInfo);
    ND4J_EXPORT _CUDA_HD int rank(const unsigned int *shapeInfo);

    /**
    *  returns pointer on elementWiseStride
    */
    ND4J_EXPORT _CUDA_HD Nd4jLong* ews(Nd4jLong* shapeInfo);

/**
 * Converts a raw int buffer of the layout:
 * rank
 * shape
 * stride
 * offset
 * elementWiseStride
 *
 * where shape and stride are both straight int pointers
 */
    ND4J_EXPORT _CUDA_HD ShapeInformation *infoFromBuffer(Nd4jLong *buffer);

/**
 * Returns the stride portion of an information
 * buffer
 */
    ND4J_EXPORT _CUDA_HD Nd4jLong *stride(Nd4jLong *buffer);

    ND4J_EXPORT _CUDA_HD Nd4jLong *stride(const Nd4jLong *buffer);

/**
 * Compute the length of the given shape
 */
    ND4J_EXPORT _CUDA_HD bool isEmpty(const Nd4jLong *shapeInfo);

    ND4J_EXPORT _CUDA_HD Nd4jLong length(const Nd4jLong *shapeInfo);

    ND4J_EXPORT _CUDA_HD Nd4jLong length(std::initializer_list<int>& shape);

    ND4J_EXPORT _CUDA_HD Nd4jLong length(std::initializer_list<Nd4jLong>& shape);

/***
 * Returns the offset portion of an information buffer
 */
    ND4J_EXPORT _CUDA_HD Nd4jLong offset(Nd4jLong *buffer);

    ND4J_EXPORT _CUDA_HD Nd4jLong& extra(Nd4jLong *buffer);

/**
 * Returns the ordering
 * for this shape information buffer
 */
    ND4J_EXPORT _CUDA_HD char order(const Nd4jLong *buffer);

/**
 * Returns the type
 */
    ND4J_EXPORT _CUDA_HD Nd4jLong type(const Nd4jLong* shapeInfo);

/**
 * Returns the element wise stride for this information
 * buffer
 */
   ND4J_EXPORT _CUDA_HD Nd4jLong elementWiseStride(const Nd4jLong *buffer);


    /**
 * Returns the element wise stride for this information
 * buffer
     * relative to a dimension and ordering for a reduction index
 */
    ND4J_EXPORT _CUDA_HD Nd4jLong reductionIndexElementWiseStride(Nd4jLong *buffer, int *dimension, int dimensionLength);

/**
 * Returns whether
 * the given shape info buffer
 * represents a scalar shape
 */
    ND4J_EXPORT _CUDA_HD int isScalar(const Nd4jLong *info);

/**
 * Returns whether
 * the given shape information
 * represents a scalar
 * shape or not
 */
    ND4J_EXPORT _CUDA_HD int isScalar(volatile ShapeInformation *info);

/**
 * Return a copy of this array with the
 * given index omitted
 *
 * @param data  the data to copy
 * @param indexes the index of the item to remove
 * @param dataLength the length of the data array
 * @param indexesLength the length of the data array
 * @return the new array with the omitted
 *
 * item
 */
    template <typename T1, typename T2>
    ND4J_EXPORT _CUDA_HD void removeIndex(T1 const* data, T2 const* indexes, Nd4jLong dataLength, Nd4jLong indexesLength, T1 *out);

    /**
 * Return a copy of this array with the
 * given index omitted
 *
 * @param data  the data to copy
 * @param indexes the index of the item to remove
 * @param dataLength the length of the data array
 * @param indexesLength the length of the data array
 * @return the new array with the omitted
 *
 * item
 */

    template <typename T1, typename T2>
    ND4J_EXPORT _CUDA_HD T1* removeIndex(T1 const* data, T2 const* indexes, Nd4jLong dataLength, Nd4jLong indexesLength);

    /**
     * Iterate over a given set of indexes
     * the begin and end indexes are 0 based.
     * 1 padding is automatically assumed for the ending.
     *
     * For example if you want to iterate over 0 to 4
     * it will go to 4 rather than 3.
     *
     * indexes should be the indexes to exclude
     * indexes length should be the length of indexes
     */
    ND4J_EXPORT _CUDA_HD Nd4jLong* everyIndexBut(Nd4jLong const* indexes,int indexesLength,int begin,int end);

/**
 * Computes the offset for accessing
 * a global element given the shape information
 * and the offset to be read.
 */
//#ifdef __CUDACC__
//    __device__
//#endif
//    ND4J_EXPORT int tadOffset(shape::ShapeInformation *xInfo, int offset);

/**
 * Returns a shape
 * forces the given length to be 2.
 * @param shape the shape to modify
 * @param dimension the dimension (row or column)
 * for the shape to be returned as
 * @return the new shape
 */
    ND4J_EXPORT _CUDA_HD Nd4jLong* ensureVectorShape(Nd4jLong *shape);

    ND4J_EXPORT _CUDA_HD Nd4jLong* createScalarShapeInfo();

    ND4J_EXPORT _CUDA_HD Nd4jLong* createScalarShapeInfo(Nd4jLong *ret);

/**
 * Generate an int buffer
 * up to the given length
 * at the specified increment
 *
 */
    template <typename T>
    ND4J_EXPORT _CUDA_HD T* range(int from, int to, int increment);

/**
 * Range between from and two with an
 * increment of 1
 */
    template <typename T>
    ND4J_EXPORT _CUDA_HD T* range(int from, int to);

/**
 * Keep the given indexes
 * in the data
 */
    ND4J_EXPORT _CUDA_HD Nd4jLong *keep(volatile Nd4jLong *data, int const* index, int indexLength, int dataLength);

/**
 * Generate reverse copy of the data
 * @param data
 * @param length
 * @return
 */

    template <typename T>
    ND4J_EXPORT _CUDA_HD T* reverseCopy(T const* data, Nd4jLong length);

    template <typename T>
    ND4J_EXPORT _CUDA_HD void reverseCopyTo(T const* from, T *to, Nd4jLong length);

    template <typename T>
    ND4J_EXPORT _CUDA_HD void reverseCopyTo(T const* from, T *to, Nd4jLong *indexes, Nd4jLong length);

    template <typename T1, typename T2>
    ND4J_EXPORT _CUDA_H void convertT(T1 *from, T2 *to, Nd4jLong length);
/**
 *
 * @param arr1
 * @param arr1Length
 * @param arr2
 * @param arr2Length
 * @return
 */
    template <typename T>
    ND4J_EXPORT _CUDA_HD T* concat(T const* arr1, Nd4jLong const arr1Length, T const* arr2, Nd4jLong const arr2Length);

/**
 *
 * @param numArrays
 * @param numTotalElements
 * @param arr
 * @param lengths
 * @return
 */
    template <typename T>
    ND4J_EXPORT _CUDA_HD T* concat(int const numArrays, int const numTotalElements, Nd4jLong const**arr, Nd4jLong const* lengths);

/**
 * Get the length per slice of the
 * given shape and the dimension
 * @param rank the rank of the shape
 * @param shape the shape of to get
 * the length per slice for
 * @param dimension the dimension to
 * get the length per slice for
 * @param dimensionLength the length of the dimension array
 * @return the length per slice of the given shape
 * along the given dimension
 */
    ND4J_EXPORT _CUDA_HD Nd4jLong lengthPerSlice(int rank, Nd4jLong const* shape, int const* dimension, int dimensionLength);

/**
 * calculates the offset for a tensor
 * @param index
 * @param arr
 * @param tensorShape
 * @return
 */
    ND4J_EXPORT _CUDA_HD Nd4jLong sliceOffsetForTensor(int rank,
                                       int index,
                                       Nd4jLong const* shape,
                                       Nd4jLong const* tensorShape,
                                       int tensorShapeLength,
                                       int const *dimension,
                                       int dimensionLength);

/**
 * calculates the offset for a tensor
 * @param index
 * @param arr
 * @param tensorShape
 * @return
 */
    ND4J_EXPORT _CUDA_HD Nd4jLong sliceOffsetForTensor(int index,int tensorLength,int lengthPerSlice2);
/**
 * Computes the tensor along dimension
 * offset
 * @param index the index to get the offset for the tad for
 * @param rank the rank of the shapes and strides
 * @param info the shape information to use for tad
 * @param dimension the dimensions to use for computing the tensor along dimensions
 */
//    ND4J_EXPORT _CUDA_HD int offset(int index,
//                         int rank,
//                         shape::ShapeInformation *info,
//                         Nd4jLong *dimension,
//                         int dimensionLength);


/**
 * Computes the number
 * of tensors along
 * a given dimension
 */
    ND4J_EXPORT _CUDA_HD Nd4jLong tensorsAlongDimension(int rank,
                                        volatile int length,
                                        volatile Nd4jLong *shape,
                                        int *dimension,
                                        int dimensionLength);

/**
 * Computes the number
 * of tensors along
 * a given dimension
 */
    ND4J_EXPORT _CUDA_HD Nd4jLong tensorsAlongDimension(Nd4jLong *shapeInfo, int *dimension, int dimensionLength);



/**
 * Returns the tensor along dimension
 * for the given block index
 * @param blockSize
 * @param blockIdx
 * @param i
 * @return
 */
    ND4J_EXPORT _CUDA_HD int tadForBlockIndex(int blockSize, int blockIdx, int i);

/**
 * Computes the number of tads per block
 *
 */
    ND4J_EXPORT _CUDA_HD int tadsPerBlock(int blockSize, int tads);

//    ND4J_EXPORT _CUDA_HD Nd4jLong *tadShapeInfo(int index, Nd4jLong *xShapeInfo, Nd4jLong *dimension,
//                                int dimensionLength);

/**
 * Returns a shape buffer
 * for the shape information metadata.
 */
    ND4J_EXPORT _CUDA_HD Nd4jLong *toShapeBuffer( ShapeInformation *info);

    ND4J_EXPORT _CUDA_HD Nd4jLong *toShapeBuffer( ShapeInformation *info, Nd4jLong* ret);

/**
 * Returns the number of elements per thread
 */
//#ifdef __CUDACC__
//    __device__
//#endif
//    int numElementsPerThread(int N);

/**
 * Returns the block starting index
 */
//#ifdef __CUDACC__
//    __device__
//#endif
//    int blockStartingIndex(int N);

/**
 * Returns the thread starting index
 */
//#ifdef __CUDACC__
//    __device__
//#endif
//    int threadStartingIndex(int N, int stride, int offset);

/**
 * Returns the thread ending index
 */
//#ifdef __CUDACC__
//    __device__
//#endif
//    int threadEndingIndex(int N, int stride, int offset);

/**
 * Returns indexing information
 * for the current kernel invocation
 */
//#ifdef __CUDACC__
//    __device__
//#endif
//    CurrentIndexing *currentIndex(int N, int offset, int stride);

/** Given an linear index, element wise stride
 * and the length of each tad
 * map a linear index to a tad
 * @param i the index to map
 * @param the element wise stride for the tads
 * @param numElementsPerTad the number of elements
 * per tad
 */
    ND4J_EXPORT _CUDA_HD int tadIndex(int i, int elementWiseStride, int numElementsPerTad);

/**
 * Map a tad to a
 * reduction index.
 * @param tadIndexForOriginal the original tad index for the
 * split up problem (eg: split is dimension 3 mapping to a 2,3 problem)
 * @param tadsForReduced the number of tads for the shrunk down problem (eg: 2,3)
 * @param tadsForOriginal the number of tads for the smaller problem (eg: 3)
 */
    ND4J_EXPORT _CUDA_HD int reductionIndexForTad(int tadIndexForOriginal, int tadsForReduced,
                             int tadsForOriginal);

/**
 * Computes the number of tads
 * per reduce index for the
 * reduction tad.
 */
    ND4J_EXPORT _CUDA_HD int tadsPerReduceIndex(int tadsForReduce, int tadsForOriginal);

/**
 * Maps a linear index to a reduction index
 * @param i the linear index to map
 * @param elementWiseStride the element wise stride
 * for the multiple problem
 * @param tadNum the number of tads for the shrunken problem
 * @param originalTadNum the tad number for the reduced version of the problem
 */
    ND4J_EXPORT _CUDA_HD int reductionIndexForLinear(int i, int elementWiseStride, int numElementsPerTad,
                                int tadNum, int originalTadNum);

/**
 * Returns the prod of the data
 * up to the given length
 */
    ND4J_EXPORT _CUDA_HD Nd4jLong prodLong(const Nd4jLong *data, int length);

    /**
     * Returns the rear most left over item not present in
     * the dimension array. This assumes that the dimension array is sorted.
     *
     * For example, given a dimension array of:
     * 0,2
     *
     * and
     *
     * 12,4,2,1 in data
     *
     * You end up with 1 (data[3])
     * since the first item won't match
     * the last item of the dimension array
     */

//    ND4J_EXPORT _CUDA_HD int rearMostLeftOverItem(Nd4jLong *data,int length,Nd4jLong *dimension,int dimensionLength);

    /**
* Get an offset for retrieval
* from a data buffer
* based on the given
* shape stride and given indices
* @param baseOffset the offset to start from
* @param shape the shape of the array
* @param stride the stride of the array
* @param indices the indices to iterate over
* @return the double at the specified index
*/

    ND4J_EXPORT _CUDA_HD Nd4jLong getOffset(const Nd4jLong *shapeInfo, const Nd4jLong *coords, Nd4jLong baseOffset = 0);
    ND4J_EXPORT _CUDA_HD Nd4jLong getOffset(const Nd4jLong *shapeInfo, const int *coords, Nd4jLong baseOffset = 0);
    ND4J_EXPORT _CUDA_HD Nd4jLong getOffset(const Nd4jLong *shapeInfo, const uint *coords, Nd4jLong baseOffset = 0);

    ND4J_EXPORT _CUDA_HD Nd4jLong* createShapeInfo(Nd4jLong *shape, Nd4jLong *stride, int rank);

    ND4J_EXPORT _CUDA_HD Nd4jLong* createShapeInfo(Nd4jLong *shape, Nd4jLong *stride, int rank, Nd4jLong *buffer);

    /**
    * Convert a linear index to the corresponding coordinates
    * for example if shape is {2, 4}, then index 5 corresponds to coordinates [1, 1]
    */
    ND4J_EXPORT _CUDA_HD void index2coords(Nd4jLong index, const Nd4jLong *shapeInfo,  Nd4jLong *coords);
    ND4J_EXPORT _CUDA_HD void index2coords(Nd4jLong index, const Nd4jLong *shapeInfo,  int *coords);
    ND4J_EXPORT _CUDA_HD void index2coords(Nd4jLong index, const Nd4jLong *shapeInfo,  uint *coords);
    ND4J_EXPORT _CUDA_HD void index2coords(Nd4jLong index, const int rank, const Nd4jLong *shape, Nd4jLong *coords);
    ND4J_EXPORT _CUDA_HD void index2coords(Nd4jLong index, const int rank, const Nd4jLong *shape, int *coords);

    ND4J_EXPORT _CUDA_HD void index2coordsCPU(const Nd4jLong& startIndex, const Nd4jLong& index, const Nd4jLong *shapeInfo, Nd4jLong *coords);
    ND4J_EXPORT _CUDA_HD void index2coordsCPU(const Nd4jLong& startIndex, const Nd4jLong& index, const Nd4jLong *shapeInfo, int *coords);

    /**
    * take into account only dimensions stored in tadDims, tadDims must be sorted in increasing order!
    */
    ND4J_EXPORT _CUDA_HD void index2coords(Nd4jLong index, const Nd4jLong *shapeInfo, int *coords, const int dimsSize, const int* tadDims);

    /**
    * Convert coordinates to the corresponding linear index (sequence number in other words)
    * for example if shape is {2, 4} and coordinates [1, 1] then index 5 is returned
    */
    ND4J_EXPORT _CUDA_HD Nd4jLong coords2index(const Nd4jLong *shapeInfo, const Nd4jLong *coords);
    ND4J_EXPORT _CUDA_HD Nd4jLong coords2index(const Nd4jLong *shapeInfo, const int *coords);
    ND4J_EXPORT _CUDA_HD Nd4jLong coords2index(const Nd4jLong *shapeInfo, const uint *coords);
    ND4J_EXPORT _CUDA_HD Nd4jLong coords2index(const int rank, const Nd4jLong *shape, const int *coords);
    /**
    * take into account only dimensions stored in tadDims, tadDims must be sorted in increasing order!
    */
    ND4J_EXPORT _CUDA_HD Nd4jLong coords2index(const Nd4jLong *shapeInfo, const int *coords, const int dimsSize, const int* tadDims);

   /**
   * increment n-dimensional array by one iteration by changing coord appropriately
   * for example we have array with shape {2, 3}:
   * - if input coord = {0,1}, then output coord = {0,2}
   * - if input coord = {0,2}, then output coord = {1,0}
   * so the aim is to produce following subsequence of coord: {0,0}, {0,1}, {0,2}, {1,0}, {1,1}, {1,2}
   */

   /* calculates an array buffer offset for given "index" using following formula: offset = coord_0*stride_0 + coord_1*stride_1 + ... + coord_{rank-1}*stride_{rank-1}
   */
    ND4J_EXPORT _CUDA_HD uint getIndexOffset(uint index, const uint *shapeInfo);
    ND4J_EXPORT _CUDA_HD Nd4jLong getIndexOffset(Nd4jLong index, const Nd4jLong *shapeInfo);
    ND4J_EXPORT _CUDA_HD Nd4jLong indexOffset(Nd4jLong index, const Nd4jLong* lShapeInfo, const uint* uShapeInfo, const bool useUnsigned);

    ND4J_EXPORT _CUDA_HD void printShapeInfo(Nd4jLong *shapeInfo);

    ND4J_EXPORT _CUDA_HD void printShapeInfoLinear(const Nd4jLong *shapeInfo);

    ND4J_EXPORT _CUDA_HD void printShapeInfoLinear(const char *msg, const Nd4jLong *shapeInfo);

    ND4J_EXPORT _CUDA_HD void printShapeInfoLinear(const char *msg, int rank, const Nd4jLong *shape, const Nd4jLong *strides);

    ND4J_EXPORT _CUDA_HD void printIntArray(const Nd4jLong *arr, const int length);
    ND4J_EXPORT _CUDA_HD void printIntArray(const int *arr, const int length);

    ND4J_EXPORT _CUDA_HD void printArray(float *arr,int length);

    template<typename T>
    ND4J_EXPORT _CUDA_HD void printArray(T *arr,int length, const char *message);

    ND4J_EXPORT _CUDA_HD Nd4jLong* shapeBufferOfNpy(int rank, unsigned int *shape,bool fortranOrder);

    ND4J_EXPORT _CUDA_HD Nd4jLong *shapeBufferOfNpy(cnpy::NpyArray arr);

//    ND4J_EXPORT _CUDA_HD Nd4jLong *shapeBufferOfNpyBuffer(char *buffer);


   // this function checks the consistence of dimensions with array rank (negative dimensions, too large dimensions, too big number of dimensions)
    // also sort input array of dimensions, this operation is also necessary for creating TAD object
    ND4J_EXPORT _CUDA_H void checkDimensions(const int rank, std::vector<int>& dimensions);

    // function calculates linear index of array min, min is sub-array of max, index to be returned is min-array's index and corresponds to maxIdx of max array
    // dimsToExclude - should be sorted in increasing order
    ND4J_EXPORT _CUDA_HD Nd4jLong subArrayIndex(const Nd4jLong maxIdx, const Nd4jLong* maxShapeInfo, const Nd4jLong* minShapeInfo, const int* dimsToExclude = nullptr, const int dimsLen = -1);

    // function calculates absolute offset of min array, min is sub-array of max, offset to be returned corresponds to maxIdx of max array
    // dimsToExclude - should be sorted in increasing order
    ND4J_EXPORT _CUDA_HD Nd4jLong subArrayOffset(const Nd4jLong maxIdx, const Nd4jLong* maxShapeInfo, const Nd4jLong* minShapeInfo, const int* dimsToExclude = nullptr, const int dimsLen = -1);

    // max array is outer for min array, min array is sub-array of max array
    // function calculates the coordinates of min array (and saves them into minIdxs) given coordinates of max array (already stored in maxIdxs)
    // dimsToExclude - should be sorted in increasing order
    // dimsLen - length of dimsToExclude, if not set (= -1), then it is calculated as maxRank - minRank
    ND4J_EXPORT _CUDA_HD void maxIndToMinInd(int* maxIdxs, int* minIdxs, const Nd4jLong* maxShapeInfo, const Nd4jLong* minShapeInfo, const int* dimsToExclude = nullptr, const int dimsLen = -1);

    // calculate indexes of max-array, these output indexes correspond to one minIdx index of min-array which is sub-array of max-array
    // dimsToExclude - should be sorted in increasing order
    ND4J_EXPORT _CUDA_HD int outerArrayIndexes(int* maxIdxs, const Nd4jLong minIdx, const Nd4jLong* maxShapeInfo, const Nd4jLong* minShapeInfo, const int* dimsToExclude = nullptr);

    // calculate offsets of max-array, these offsets correspond to one minIdx index of min-array which is sub-array of max-array
    // maxOffsets - will contain calculated offsets of max-array, buffer for maxOffsets should be allocated beforehand
    // dimsToExclude - should be sorted in increasing order
    // memBuff - auxiliary memory buffer (size = 2 * max_rank) for coordinates and increments storing, should be allocated beforehand
    ND4J_EXPORT _CUDA_HD int outerArrayOffsets(Nd4jLong* maxOffsets, const Nd4jLong minIdx, const Nd4jLong* maxShapeInfo, const Nd4jLong* minShapeInfo, int* memBuff, const int* dimsToExclude = nullptr);

    // calculates offsets for entities (elements or sub-arrays), shape in context of sub-array means dimensions excluded from outer array
    // rank is equal to size of shape
    ND4J_EXPORT void calcOffsets(const int rank, const Nd4jLong* shape, const Nd4jLong* strides, Nd4jLong* offsets, const char order = 'c');
    ND4J_EXPORT void calcOffsets(const Nd4jLong* shapeInfo, Nd4jLong* offsets, const char order = 'c');
    // ND4J_EXPORT void calcOffsets(const Nd4jLong *xShapeInfo, Nd4jLong*& xOffsets, const Nd4jLong *yShapeInfo, Nd4jLong*& yOffsets, const char order = 'c');
    // ND4J_EXPORT void calcOffsets(const Nd4jLong *xShapeInfo, Nd4jLong*& xOffsets, const Nd4jLong *yShapeInfo, Nd4jLong*& yOffsets, const Nd4jLong* zShapeInfo, Nd4jLong*& zOffsets, const char order = 'c');
    ND4J_EXPORT _CUDA_HD void shapeOldScalar(sd::DataType dtype, Nd4jLong* const buffer, const char order);

    // deduce order and element-wise stride
    // if array is scalar or unit length vector then ews = 1 and order is preserved
    // if array is common vector then ews = stride of non-unity dimension and order is preserved
    // if strides are normal/contiguous then ews = 1 and corresponding order is set, otherwise ews = 0 and order is preserved
    ND4J_EXPORT _CUDA_HD void checkStridesEwsAndOrder(Nd4jLong* shapeInfo, const char proposedOrder, const int numOfNonUnitDims, const Nd4jLong* shapeNoUnities, const Nd4jLong* stridesNoUnities);
    ND4J_EXPORT _CUDA_HD void checkStridesEwsAndOrder(Nd4jLong* shapeInfo);

    /**
    * processes whole set of sub-arrays
    * evaluates shapeInfo of sub-arrays (all sub-arrays have the same shapeInfo) and their buffer offsets (each sub-array has its own unique offset from original this-buffer)
    * arguments:
    * wholeShapeInfo - original shapeInfo of whole array
    * numOfSubArrs - number of sub-arrays, size of subArrOffsets is equal to numOfSubArrs
    * dimsSize - size of dimsToExclude, if dimsSize = array rank or dimsSize = 0 it means sub-array is whole array, copy of wholeShapeInfo and one zero offset will be returned
    * dimsToExclude - MUST BE SORTED, dimensions to evaluate sub-array along, i.e. when shape is [2,3,4,5] and dimsToExclude={0,2}, then there will be 8 sub-arrays with shape [3,5]
    * subArrShapeInfo    - output argument, contains shapeInfo (same for all sub-arrays)
    * subArrOffsets      - output argument, contains successive sub-arrays offsets from original this-buffer
    * keepUnitiesInShape - if false then eliminate unities from sub-array shapeInfo, for example {1,a,1,b} -> {a,b}
    */
    ND4J_EXPORT _CUDA_HD void calcSubArrsShapeInfoAndOffsets(const Nd4jLong* wholeShapeInfo, const Nd4jLong numOfSubArrs, const int dimsSize, const int* dimsToExclude, Nd4jLong* subArrShapeInfo, Nd4jLong* subArrOffsets, bool keepUnitiesInShape = false);

    /**
    * processes only one sub-array, evaluates shapeInfo of sub-array and its buffer offset from original array
    * arguments:
    * idx - input argument, intervals of indexes which define the sub-array to point on,
    *        when isStrided = false then idx has form {dim0Start,dim0End,  dim1Start,dim1End, ....} and length (2 * maxRank)
    *        when isStrided = true  then idx has form {dim0Start,dim0End,dim0Stride,  dim1Start,dim1End,dim1Stride, ....} and length (3 * maxRank)
    *        when (dimStart == dimEnd) then whole range will be used for current dimension
    * maxShapeInfo - input argument, shapeInfo of original array
    * minShapeInfo - output argument, shapeInfo of sub-array to be deduced
    * minOffset - output argument, offset of sub-array buffer offsets from original buffer
    * keepUnitiesInShape - input argument, if false then eliminate unities from sub-array shapeInfo, for example {1,a,1,b} -> {a,b}
    * isStrided - input argument, if true then idx has length (3 * this->rankOf()) and contains additional stride numbers which correspond to stride between dimStart and dimEnd,
    * numOfUntiesInMinShape - input argument, number of occurrences in idx when (dimEnd - dimStart) = 1
    */
    ND4J_EXPORT void calcSubArrShapeInfoAndOffset(const Nd4jLong* idx, const Nd4jLong* maxShapeInfo, Nd4jLong* minShapeInfo, Nd4jLong& minOffset, const bool keepUnitiesInShape = false, const bool isStrided = false, const int numOfUntiesInMinShape = 0);

    /**
    * for example inShapeInfo is {3, 2,1,4, 4,4,1, 16384,1,99}
    * then output shapeNoUnities will contain {2,4, 4,1} - that is only shape and strides, no rank/type/ews/order
    * stridesNoUnities will point on strides in shapeNoUnities that is on {4,1}
    * returns number of non-unity dimensions in inShapeInfo
    * if there is no unities in inShapeInfo, then no copy procedure will be performed and shapeNoUnities/stridesNoUnities will point on corresponding places in inShapeInfo
    */
    ND4J_EXPORT _CUDA_HD int excludeUnitiesFromShapeInfo(const Nd4jLong* inShapeInfo, Nd4jLong*& shapeNoUnities, Nd4jLong*& stridesNoUnities);

    /**
    * for example inShapeInfo is {3, 2,1,3,1,4,  12,12,4,4,1, 16384,1,99}, dimsToExclude = {1,3}, dimsSize = 2
    * then outShapeInfo will contain {3, 2,3,4, 12,4,1, 16384,1,99}
    */
    INLINEDEF _CUDA_HD void excludeUnitiesFromShapeInfo(const Nd4jLong* inShapeInfo, const int dimsSize, const int* dimsToExclude, Nd4jLong* outShapeInfo);

    /**
    * get stride over contiguous axis (contiguous axis must have stride = 1)
    * for example when inShapeInfo is {4, 2,5,4,3,  60,1,5,20, 16384,0,99} then output is 5 (that is smallest stride in inShapeInfo except those equal to 1)
    */
    // INLINEDEF _CUDA_HD Nd4jLong strideOverContigAxis(const int axis, const Nd4jLong* inShapeInfo);






//END HEADERS


    //BEGIN IMPLEMENTATIONS



#ifdef __CUDACC__
    /**
* BEWARE: THIS METHOD DOES NOT CHECKS ALLOCATION BOUNDARIES
*/
__device__ INLINEDEF Nd4jLong *cuMalloc(Nd4jLong *buffer, long size) {
    Nd4jLong *ret = buffer;
    ret += (threadIdx.x * size);
    return ret;
}
#endif

/**
* Length of a tad given
* the shape information
*/
    INLINEDEF _CUDA_HD Nd4jLong tadLength(const Nd4jLong *shapeInfo, int *dimension, int dimensionLength) {
        if(dimensionLength == 1) {
            return shape::shapeOf(shapeInfo)[dimension[0]];
        }
        else {
            Nd4jLong ret = 1;
            for(int i = 0; i < shape::rank(shapeInfo); i++) {
                for(int j = 0; j < dimensionLength; j++) {
                    if(i == dimension[j])
                        ret *= shape::shapeOf(shapeInfo)[dimension[j]];
                }
            }
            return ret;
        }
    }



/**
 * Tad element wise stride:
 * given the inner most dimension (the sorted dimension of the last)
 * the element wise stride of the tad (disregarding order) is the
 * last dimension's stride.
 *
 * For a given singular dimension this will just be the only entry.
 * For example, given the following c order shape/stride:
 * 2,2,3,2
 * 12,6,2,1
 *
 * The tad element wise stride for 3 will be 1.
 * For zero it wil be 12
 *
 * For 2,3 it's 1
 *
 * Note here that the multi dimensional 2,3 case
 * is equivalent to the singular 3 case.
 *
 *
 * Note that this is for the dimension that ultimately
 * ends up removed.
 *
 * Again: this may not preserve ordering of the tad
 * but maybe used for reductions.
 */
    INLINEDEF _CUDA_HD int tadElementWiseStride(Nd4jLong *shapeInfo, int *dimension,int dimensionLength) {
        return reductionIndexElementWiseStride(shapeInfo,dimension,dimensionLength);
    }


    INLINEDEF _CUDA_HD bool shapeEquals(const int shape1Rank, const Nd4jLong *shape1, const int shape2Rank, const Nd4jLong *shape2) {
        if(shape1Rank != shape2Rank)
            return false;
        //rank not equals
        for(int i = 0; i < shape1Rank; i++) {
            if(shape1[i] != shape2[i])
                return false;
        }

        return true;
    }

    INLINEDEF _CUDA_HD bool shapeEquals(const Nd4jLong *shapeInfo1, const Nd4jLong *shapeInfo2) {
        return shape::shapeEquals(shape::rank(shapeInfo1), shape::shapeOf(const_cast<Nd4jLong*>(shapeInfo1)), shape::rank(shapeInfo2), shape::shapeOf(const_cast<Nd4jLong*>(shapeInfo2)));
    }

    INLINEDEF _CUDA_HD bool shapeEquals(const Nd4jLong *shapeInfo1, const Nd4jLong *shapeInfo2, const Nd4jLong *shapeInfo3) {

        return shape::shapeEquals(shapeInfo1, shapeInfo2) && shape::shapeEquals(shapeInfo1, shapeInfo3);

    }

    INLINEDEF _CUDA_HD bool strideEquals(int const shape1Rank, Nd4jLong const* shape1,int const shape2Rank,Nd4jLong const* shape2) {
        if(shape1Rank != shape2Rank)
            return false;
        //rank not equals
        for(int i = 0; i < shape1Rank; i++) {
            if(shape1[i] != shape2[i])
                return false;
        }

        return true;
    }

    INLINEDEF _CUDA_HD bool strideEquals(Nd4jLong const* shapeInfo1,Nd4jLong const* shapeInfo2) {
        return shape::strideEquals(shape::rank(shapeInfo1),shape::stride(shapeInfo1),shape::rank(shapeInfo2),shape::stride(shapeInfo2));

    }

    INLINEDEF _CUDA_HD bool strideEquals(Nd4jLong const* stride1,int const rank1 , Nd4jLong const* stride2, int const rank2) {
        if(rank1 != rank2)
            return false;

        for(int i = 0; i < rank1; i++) {
            if(stride1[i] != stride2[i])
                return false;
        }

        return true;
    }

    INLINEDEF _CUDA_HD Nd4jLong *computeResultShape(Nd4jLong const* originalShapeBuffer, int * dimension,int dimensionLength) {
        Nd4jLong *retShape;
        int retShapeLength;
        if(dimensionLength == 1 && dimension[0] == 2147483647) {
            retShape = new Nd4jLong[2];
            retShape[0] = 1;
            retShape[1] = 1;
            retShapeLength = 2;
        }
        else {
            retShape = shape::removeIndex<Nd4jLong, int>(shape::shapeOf(originalShapeBuffer), dimension, shape::shapeInfoLength(shape::rank(originalShapeBuffer)), dimensionLength);
            retShapeLength =   shape::rank(originalShapeBuffer) - dimensionLength;
        }
        //ensure vector is proper shape
        if (retShapeLength == 1) {
            if (dimension[0] == 0) {
                auto newRetShape = new Nd4jLong[2]{1, retShape[0]};
                delete[] retShape;
                retShape = newRetShape;
                retShapeLength = 2;
            }
            else {
                auto newRetShape = new Nd4jLong[2]{retShape[0], 1};
                delete[] retShape;
                retShape = newRetShape;
                retShapeLength = 2;
            }
        } else if (retShapeLength == 0) {
            auto newRetShape = new Nd4jLong[2]{1, 1};
            delete[] retShape;
            retShape = newRetShape;
            retShapeLength = 2;
        }

        auto ret = shape::shapeBuffer(retShapeLength, sd::ArrayOptions::dataType(originalShapeBuffer), retShape);
        delete[] retShape;

        return ret;

    }

    INLINEDEF _CUDA_HD Nd4jLong *shapeInfoOnlyShapeAndStride(const Nd4jLong *shapeInfo, Nd4jLong *dimension, int dimensionLength,bool reverseCopyStride, Nd4jLong *buffer) {
        Nd4jLong *theShape = shape::shapeOf(shapeInfo);
        Nd4jLong *theStride = shape::stride(shapeInfo);
        int rank = dimensionLength == 1 ? 2 : dimensionLength;
        Nd4jLong *ret = buffer;
        //set the rank
        ret[0] = rank;
        Nd4jLong *retShape = shape::shapeOf(ret);
        Nd4jLong *retStride = shape::stride(ret);
        int len = rank;

        if(dimensionLength == 1) {
            if(shape::isMatrix(theShape,shape::rank(shapeInfo))) {
                if(dimension[0] == 0) {
                    Nd4jLong newStride[2] = {theStride[dimension[0]],1};
                    Nd4jLong newShape[2] = {theShape[dimension[0]],1};
                    retShape[0] = newShape[0];
                    retShape[1] = newShape[1];
                    retStride[0] = newStride[0];
                    retStride[1] = newStride[1];
                }
                else {
                    Nd4jLong newStride[2] = {theStride[dimension[0]],1};
                    Nd4jLong newShape[2] = {theShape[dimension[0]],1};
                    retShape[0] = newShape[0];
                    retShape[1] = newShape[1];
                    retStride[0] = newStride[0];
                    retStride[1] = newStride[1];
                }
            }
            else {
                Nd4jLong newStride[2] = {1,theStride[dimension[0]]};
                Nd4jLong newShape[2] = {1,theShape[dimension[0]]};
                retShape[0] = newShape[0];
                retShape[1] = newShape[1];
                retStride[0] = newStride[0];
                retStride[1] = newStride[1];
            }



        }
        else {
             Nd4jLong *newIndexes = dimension;
            if(reverseCopyStride)
                shape::reverseCopyTo(theStride, retStride, newIndexes, len);
            else
                shape::copyTo(len, theStride, retStride, newIndexes);
            shape::copyTo(len, theShape, retShape, newIndexes);

        }


        ret[shape::shapeInfoLength(rank) - 1] = shape::order(shapeInfo);
        return ret;
    }

    INLINEDEF _CUDA_HD Nd4jLong *shapeInfoOnlyShapeAndStride(const Nd4jLong *shapeInfo, Nd4jLong *dimension, int dimensionLength,bool reverseCopyStride) {
        int rank = dimensionLength == 1 ? 2 : dimensionLength;

        traceNew(4);

        Nd4jLong *ret = new Nd4jLong[shape::shapeInfoLength(rank)];
        return shapeInfoOnlyShapeAndStride(shapeInfo, dimension, dimensionLength, reverseCopyStride, ret);
    }

    INLINEDEF _CUDA_HD Nd4jLong * createShapeInfo(Nd4jLong *shape, Nd4jLong *stride, int rank) {

        traceNew(5);

        Nd4jLong *ret = new Nd4jLong[shape::shapeInfoLength(rank)];

        return createShapeInfo(shape, stride, rank, ret);
    }

    INLINEDEF _CUDA_HD Nd4jLong * createShapeInfo(Nd4jLong *shape, Nd4jLong *stride, int rank, Nd4jLong *buffer) {
        buffer[0] = rank;
        Nd4jLong *retShape = shape::shapeOf(buffer);
        Nd4jLong *retStride = shape::stride(buffer);
        for(int i = 0;i < rank; i++) {
            retShape[i] = shape[i];
            retStride[i] = stride[i];
        }

        return buffer;
    }

/**
 * Computes the standard packed array strides for a given shape.
 *
 * @param shape    the shape of a matrix:
 * @param startNum the start number for the strides
 * @return the strides for a matrix of n dimensions
 */
    INLINEDEF _CUDA_HD Nd4jLong * calcStridesFortran(Nd4jLong const* shape, int rank, int startNum) {
        if (isVector(shape, rank)) {

            traceNew(5);

            Nd4jLong *ret = new Nd4jLong[2];
            for (int i = 0; i < 2; i++)
                ret[i] = 1;
            return ret;

        }

        int dimensions = rank;

        traceNew(6);

        Nd4jLong *stride = new Nd4jLong[dimensions];
        Nd4jLong st = startNum;
        for (int j = 0; j < rank; j++) {
            stride[j] = st;
            st *= shape[j];
        }

        return stride;
    }

    INLINEDEF _CUDA_HD Nd4jLong * calcStridesFortran(Nd4jLong const* shape, int rank, int startNum, Nd4jLong *ret) {
        if (isVector(shape, rank)) {
            for (int i = 0; i < rank; i++)
                ret[i] = 1;
            return ret;

        }

        //int dimensions = rank;

        Nd4jLong st = startNum;
        for (int j = 0; j < rank; j++) {
            ret[j] = st;
            st *= shape[j];
        }

        return ret;
    }

/**
 * Computes the standard packed array strides for a given shape.
 *
 * @param shape    the shape of a matrix:
 * @param startNum the start number for the strides
 * @return the strides for a matrix of n dimensions
 */
    INLINEDEF _CUDA_HD Nd4jLong * calcStrides(Nd4jLong const *shape, int rank, int startNum) {

        traceNew(7);

        Nd4jLong *stride = new Nd4jLong[rank];

        if (rank == 1) {
            stride[0] = 1;
            return stride;
        }


        // if (shape::isVector(shape, rank)) {
        //     for (int i = 0; i < 2; i++)
        //         stride[i] = 1;
        //     return stride;

        // }

        Nd4jLong st = startNum;
        for (int j = rank - 1; j >= 0; j--) {
            stride[j] = st;
            st *= shape[j];
        }

        return stride;
    }

    INLINEDEF _CUDA_HD Nd4jLong * calcStrides(Nd4jLong const* shape, int rank, int startNum, Nd4jLong* ret) {
        if (rank == 1) {
            ret[0] = 1;
            return ret;
        }

        // if (shape::isVector(shape, rank)) {
        //     for (int i = 0; i < 2; i++)
        //         ret[i] = 1;
        //     return ret;

        // }

        Nd4jLong st = startNum;
        for (int j = rank - 1; j >= 0; j--) {
            ret[j] = st;
            st *= shape[j];
        }

        return ret;
    }

/**
 * Computes the standard packed array strides for a given shape.
 *
 * @param shape    the shape of a matrix:
 * @param startNum the start number for the strides
 * @return the strides for a matrix of n dimensions
 */
    INLINEDEF _CUDA_HD Nd4jLong * calcStridesFortran(Nd4jLong const* shape, int rank) {
        return calcStridesFortran(shape, rank, 1);
    }

    INLINEDEF _CUDA_HD Nd4jLong * calcStridesFortran(Nd4jLong const* shape, int rank, Nd4jLong* ret) {
        return calcStridesFortran(shape, rank, 1, ret);
    }

/**
 * Computes the standard packed array strides for a given shape.
 *
 * @param shape    the shape of a matrix:
 * @param startNum the start number for the strides
 * @return the strides for a matrix of n dimensions
 */
    INLINEDEF _CUDA_HD Nd4jLong* calcStrides(Nd4jLong const *shape, int rank) {
        return calcStrides(shape, rank, 1);
    }

    INLINEDEF _CUDA_HD Nd4jLong* calcStrides(Nd4jLong const *shape, int rank, Nd4jLong* ret) {
        return calcStrides(shape, rank, 1, ret);
    }

//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
    INLINEDEF _CUDA_HD void updateStrides(Nd4jLong *shapeInfo, const char order) {
        int rank = shapeInfo[0];
        int doubleRank = 2*rank;

        if (rank > 0) {
            if (order == 'c') {
                shapeInfo[doubleRank] = 1;          // set unity as last stride for c order
                for (int j = 1; j < rank; ++j) {
                    shapeInfo[doubleRank - j] = shapeInfo[doubleRank - j + 1] * shapeInfo[rank + 1 - j];
                }
            } else {
                shapeInfo[rank + 1] = 1;             // set unity as first stride for f order
                for (int j = rank + 1; j < doubleRank; ++j) {
                    shapeInfo[j + 1] = shapeInfo[j] * shapeInfo[j - rank];
                }
            }
        }
        // set last 2 elements in shapeInfo
        shapeInfo[doubleRank + 2] = 1;
        shapeInfo[doubleRank + 3] = (int)order;
    }

//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
    INLINEDEF _CUDA_HD void updateStrides(const int rank, const Nd4jLong *shapeOnly, Nd4jLong *stridesOnly, const char order) {

        if (rank > 0) {
            if (order == 'c') {
                stridesOnly[rank - 1] = 1;          // set unity as last stride for c order
                for (int j = 1; j < rank; ++j)
                    stridesOnly[rank - 1 - j] = stridesOnly[rank - j] * shapeOnly[rank - j];
            }
            else {
                stridesOnly[0] = 1;             // set unity as first stride for f order
                for (int j = 1; j < rank; ++j) {
                    stridesOnly[j] = stridesOnly[j - 1] * shapeOnly[j - 1];
                }
            }
        }
    }


// check whether input dimensions are permuted, not permuted dimensions order have to be 0,....,rank-1
    template <typename T>
    INLINEDEF _CUDA_HD bool isDimPermuted(const T* dimensions, const Nd4jLong dimSize ) {
        for(int i=0; i<dimSize-1; ++i)
            if(dimensions[i] > dimensions[i+1])
                return true;

        return false;
    }


/**
 * @param toCopy the shape to copy
 * @return a copy of the original struct
 */
    INLINEDEF _CUDA_HD ShapeInformation *shapeCopy( ShapeInformation *toCopy) {
        auto copy = new ShapeInformation;

        traceNew(8);

        copy->shape = new Nd4jLong[toCopy->rank];

        memcpy(copy->shape, toCopy->shape, toCopy->rank * sizeof(Nd4jLong));

        traceNew(9);

        copy->stride = new Nd4jLong[toCopy->rank];
        for (int i = 0; i < toCopy->rank; i++) {
            copy->stride[i] = toCopy->stride[i];
        }
        copy->order = toCopy->order;
        copy->rank = toCopy->rank;
        copy->offset = toCopy->offset;
        copy->elementWiseStride = toCopy->elementWiseStride;
        return copy;
    }

    INLINEDEF _CUDA_HD int computeElementWiseStride(int rank, Nd4jLong const* shape, Nd4jLong const* stride, int isFOrder) {
        if (rank == 0)
            return 1;

        if(shape::isVector(shape,rank)) {
            return stride[rank - 1];
        }

        else {
            int oldnd;
            Nd4jLong *oldDims = shape::copyOf(rank, shape);
            Nd4jLong *oldStrides = shape::copyOf(rank, stride);
            Nd4jLong np, op, last_stride;
            Nd4jLong oldStart, oldStop, ok, newStart, newStop, nk;

            traceNew(10);

            auto newStrides = new Nd4jLong[rank];
            oldnd = 0;
            //set the shape to be 1 x length
            int newShapeRank = 2;
            auto newShape = new Nd4jLong[newShapeRank];
            newShape[0] = 1;
            newShape[1] = shape::prodLong(shape, rank);

            /*
             * Remove axes with dimension 1 from the old array. They have no effect
             * but would need special cases since their strides do not matter.
             */
            for (oldStart = 0; oldStart < rank; oldStart++) {
                if (shape[oldStart] != 1) {
                    oldDims[oldnd] = shape[oldStart];
                    oldStrides[oldnd] = stride[oldStart];
                    oldnd++;
                }
            }

            np = 1;
            for (newStart = 0; newStart < newShapeRank; newStart++) {
                np *= newShape[newStart];
            }
            op = 1;
            for (oldStart = 0; oldStart < oldnd; oldStart++) {
                op *= oldDims[oldStart];
            }
            if (np != op) {
/* different total sizes; no hope */
                delete[] newStrides;
                delete[] newShape;
                delete[] oldStrides;
                delete[] oldDims;
                return 0;
            }

            if (np == 0) {
/* the current code does not handle 0-sized arrays, so give up */
                delete[] newStrides;
                delete[] newShape;
                delete[] oldStrides;
                delete[] oldDims;
                return 0;
            }

/* oldStart to oldStop and newStart to newStop give the axis ranges currently worked with */
            oldStart = 0;
            oldStop = 1;
            newStart = 0;
            newStop = 1;
            while (newStart < newShapeRank && oldStart < oldnd) {
                np = newShape[newStart];
                op = oldDims[oldStart];

                while (np != op) {
                    if (np < op) {
/* Misses trailing 1s, these are handled later */
                        np *= newShape[newStop++];
                    } else {
                        op *= oldDims[oldStop++];
                    }
                }

/* Check whether the original axes can be combined */
                for (ok = oldStart; ok < oldStop - 1; ok++) {
                    if (isFOrder) {
                        if (oldStrides[ok + 1] != oldDims[ok] * oldStrides[ok]) {
/* not contiguous enough */
                            delete[] newStrides;
                            delete[] newShape;
                            delete[] oldStrides;
                            delete[] oldDims;
                            return 0;
                        }
                    } else {
/* C order */
                        if (oldStrides[ok] != oldDims[ok + 1] * oldStrides[ok + 1]) {
/* not contiguous enough */
                            delete[] newStrides;
                            delete[] newShape;
                            delete[] oldStrides;
                            delete[] oldDims;
                            return 0;
                        }
                    }
                }

/* Calculate new strides for all axes currently worked with */
                if (isFOrder) {
                    newStrides[newStart] = oldStrides[oldStart];
                    for (nk = newStart + 1; nk < newStop; nk++) {
                        newStrides[nk] = newStrides[nk - 1] * newShape[nk - 1];
                    }
                } else {
/* C order */
                    newStrides[newStop - 1] = oldStrides[oldStop - 1];
                    for (nk = newStop - 1; nk > newStart; nk--) {
                        newStrides[nk - 1] = newStrides[nk] * newShape[nk];
                    }
                }
                newStart = newStop++;
                oldStart = oldStop++;
            }

/*
 * Set strides corresponding to trailing 1s of the new shape.
 */
            if (newStart >= 1) {
                last_stride = newStrides[newStart - 1];
            } else {
                last_stride = stride[rank - 1];
            }
            if (isFOrder) {
                if (newStart >= 1)
                    last_stride *= newShape[newStart - 1];
            }
            for (nk = newStart; nk < newShapeRank; nk++) {
                newStrides[nk] = last_stride;
            }
//returns the last element of the new stride array
            int ret = last_stride;
            delete[] newStrides;
            delete[] newShape;
            delete[] oldStrides;
            delete[] oldDims;
            return ret;
        }


    }

    INLINEDEF _CUDA_HD int computeElementWiseStride(int rank, Nd4jLong const* shape, Nd4jLong const* stride, int isFOrder,
                                           Nd4jLong const* dimension, int dimensionLength) {
        if(dimensionLength == 1) {
            return stride[dimension[0]];
        }
        return 0;

    }

/**
 * Get the shape info buffer
 * for the given rank and shape.
 */
    INLINEDEF _CUDA_HD Nd4jLong *shapeBuffer(int rank, sd::DataType dtype, Nd4jLong const* shape) {
        Nd4jLong *stride = shape::calcStrides(shape, rank);

        traceNew(11);

        auto shapeInfo = new shape::ShapeInformation();
        shapeInfo->shape = const_cast<Nd4jLong*>(shape);
        shapeInfo->stride = stride;
        shapeInfo->offset = 0;
        shapeInfo->rank = rank;
        int elementWiseStride = shape::computeElementWiseStride(rank, shape, stride, 0);
        shapeInfo->order = 'c';
        shapeInfo->elementWiseStride = elementWiseStride;
        auto shapeInfoBuffer = shape::toShapeBuffer(shapeInfo);
        delete[] stride;
        delete shapeInfo;
        sd::ArrayOptions::setDataType(shapeInfoBuffer, dtype);
        return shapeInfoBuffer;
    }

    /**
     * This is special method, it returns ONLY 2D shapebuffer.
     *
     * This method is used only for SoftMax
     */
    INLINEDEF _CUDA_HD Nd4jLong *shapeBuffer(int rank, sd::DataType dtype, Nd4jLong const* shape, Nd4jLong *buffer) {
        Nd4jLong stride[MAX_RANK];
        shape::calcStrides(shape,rank, stride);


        shape::ShapeInformation shapeInfo;
        shapeInfo.shape = const_cast<Nd4jLong*>(shape);
        shapeInfo.stride = stride;
        shapeInfo.offset = 0;
        shapeInfo.rank = rank;
        auto elementWiseStride = shape::computeElementWiseStride(rank, shape, stride, 0);

        shapeInfo.order = 'c';
        shapeInfo.elementWiseStride = elementWiseStride;
        shape::toShapeBuffer(&shapeInfo, buffer);
        sd::ArrayOptions::setDataType(buffer, dtype);
        return buffer;
    }

/**
* Get the shape info buffer
* for the given rank and shape.
*/
    INLINEDEF _CUDA_HD Nd4jLong *shapeBufferFortran(int rank, sd::DataType dtype, Nd4jLong const* shape) {
        auto stride = shape::calcStridesFortran(shape,rank);

        traceNew(12);

        auto shapeInfo = new shape::ShapeInformation();
        shapeInfo->shape = const_cast<Nd4jLong*>(shape);
        shapeInfo->stride = stride;
        shapeInfo->offset = 0;
        shapeInfo->rank = rank;
        int elementWiseStride = shape::computeElementWiseStride(rank, shape, stride, 0);

        shapeInfo->order = 'f';
        shapeInfo->elementWiseStride = elementWiseStride;
        auto shapeInfoBuffer = shape::toShapeBuffer(shapeInfo);
        delete[] stride;
        delete shapeInfo;
        sd::ArrayOptions::setDataType(shapeInfoBuffer, dtype);
        return shapeInfoBuffer;
    }

    INLINEDEF _CUDA_HD Nd4jLong *shapeBufferFortran(int rank, sd::DataType dtype, Nd4jLong const *shape, Nd4jLong *output) {
        Nd4jLong stride[MAX_RANK];
        shape::calcStridesFortran(shape,rank, stride);


        shape::ShapeInformation shapeInfo;
        shapeInfo.shape = const_cast<Nd4jLong*>(shape);
        shapeInfo.stride = stride;
        shapeInfo.offset = 0;
        shapeInfo.rank = rank;
        auto elementWiseStride = shape::computeElementWiseStride(rank, shape, stride, 0);

        shapeInfo.order = 'f';
        shapeInfo.elementWiseStride = elementWiseStride;
        shape::toShapeBuffer(&shapeInfo, output);
        sd::ArrayOptions::setDataType(output, dtype);
        return output;
    }

//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
INLINEDEF _CUDA_HD Nd4jLong coords2index(const Nd4jLong *shapeInfo, const Nd4jLong *indices) {

    Nd4jLong index, shift = 1;;

    index = indices[shapeInfo[0] - 1];
    for(uint i = shapeInfo[0]; i > 1; --i) {
        shift *= shapeInfo[i];
        index += shift * indices[i - 2];
    }

    return index;
}

//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
INLINEDEF _CUDA_HD Nd4jLong coords2index(const Nd4jLong *shapeInfo, const int *coords) {

    Nd4jLong index, shift = 1;;

    index = coords[shapeInfo[0] - 1];
    for(uint i = shapeInfo[0]; i > 1; --i) {
        shift *= shapeInfo[i];
        index += shift * coords[i - 2];
    }

    return index;
}

//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
INLINEDEF _CUDA_HD Nd4jLong coords2index(const Nd4jLong *shapeInfo, const uint *coords) {

    Nd4jLong index, shift = 1;;

    index = coords[shapeInfo[0] - 1];
    for(uint i = shapeInfo[0]; i > 1; --i) {
        shift *= shapeInfo[i];
        index += shift * coords[i - 2];
    }

    return index;
}

//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
INLINEDEF _CUDA_HD Nd4jLong coords2index(const int rank, const Nd4jLong *shape, const int *indices) {

    Nd4jLong index, shift = 1;;

    index = indices[rank - 1];
    for(uint i = rank - 1; i >= 1; --i) {
        shift *= shape[i];
        index += shift * indices[i - 1];
    }

    return index;
}

INLINEDEF _CUDA_HD Nd4jLong coords2index(const Nd4jLong *shapeInfo, const int *coords, const int dimsSize, const int* tadDims) {

    Nd4jLong index, shift = 1;;

    index = coords[tadDims[dimsSize - 1]];
    for(uint i = dimsSize - 1;  i >= 1; --i) {
        shift *= shapeInfo[tadDims[i]];
        index += shift * coords[i - 1];
    }

    return index;
}

template <typename T>
 INLINEDEF _CUDA_HD void fill(T* buffer, T value, Nd4jLong length) {

    PRAGMA_OMP_SIMD
     for (int e = 0; e < length; e++)
        buffer[e] = value;
 }


// //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
//     INLINEDEF _CUDA_HD Nd4jLong getIndexOffset(Nd4jLong index, const Nd4jLong *shapeInfo, Nd4jLong arrLen) {

//         const Nd4jLong ews = shapeInfo[shapeInfo[0] + shapeInfo[0] + 2];

//         if(ews > 0 && order(shapeInfo) == 'c')
//            if (ews == 1)
//                return index;
//            else
//                return ews * index;

//         Nd4jLong offset = 0;
//         Nd4jLong rank = shapeInfo[0];
//         for(int i = 1; i <= shapeInfo[0]; ++i) {
//             arrLen /= shapeInfo[i];
//             if(arrLen > 0 && shapeInfo[i] > 1) {
//                 offset += (index / arrLen) * shapeInfo[i + rank];
//                 index %= arrLen;
//             }
//         }
//         return offset;
//     }

//     INLINEDEF _CUDA_HD uint getIndexOffset(uint index, const uint *shapeInfo, uint arrLen) {

//         const uint rank = shapeInfo[0];
//         const uint ews = shapeInfo[rank + rank + 2];

//         if(ews > 0 && shapeInfo[rank + rank + 3] == 99)
//            if (ews == 1)
//                return index;
//            else
//                return ews * index;

//         uint offset = 0;

//         for(uint i = 1; i <= rank; ++i) {
//             arrLen /= shapeInfo[i];
//             if(arrLen > 0 && shapeInfo[i] > 1) {
//                 offset += (index / arrLen) * shapeInfo[i + rank];
//                 index %= arrLen;
//             }
//         }
//         return offset;
//     }

//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
INLINEDEF _CUDA_HD Nd4jLong getIndexOffset(Nd4jLong index, const Nd4jLong *shapeInfo) {

    if (shapeInfo[2 * shapeInfo[0] + 3] == 99) {

        const Nd4jLong ews = shapeInfo[2 * shapeInfo[0] + 2];
        if (ews == 1)
            return index;
        else if(ews > 1)
            return ews * index;
    }

    Nd4jLong offset = 0;

    for(uint i = shapeInfo[0]; i > 1; --i) {
        offset += (index % shapeInfo[i]) * shapeInfo[i + shapeInfo[0]];
        index /= shapeInfo[i];
    }

    offset += index * shapeInfo[1 + shapeInfo[0]];  // last iteration

    return offset;
}

//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
INLINEDEF _CUDA_HD uint getIndexOffset(uint index, const uint *shapeInfo) {

    if (shapeInfo[2 * shapeInfo[0] + 3] == 99) {

        const Nd4jLong ews = shapeInfo[2 * shapeInfo[0] + 2];
        if (ews == 1)
            return index;
        else if(ews > 1)
            return ews * index;
    }

    uint offset = 0;

    for(uint i = shapeInfo[0]; i > 1; --i) {
        offset += (index % shapeInfo[i]) * shapeInfo[i + shapeInfo[0]];
        index /= shapeInfo[i];
    }

    offset += index * shapeInfo[1 + shapeInfo[0]];  // last iteration

    return offset;
}


//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
INLINEDEF _CUDA_HD Nd4jLong indexOffset(Nd4jLong index, const Nd4jLong* lShapeInfo, const uint* uShapeInfo, const bool useUnsigned) {

    if(useUnsigned)
        return getIndexOffset(static_cast<uint>(index), uShapeInfo);

    return getIndexOffset(index, lShapeInfo);
}

/**
 *
 * @param length
 * @param shape
 * @param rearrange
 * @return
 */
    INLINEDEF _CUDA_HD Nd4jLong *doPermuteSwap(int length, Nd4jLong *shape,  int *rearrange) {
        traceNew(16);
        Nd4jLong *ret = new Nd4jLong[length];
        for (int i = 0; i < length; i++) {
            ret[i] = shape[rearrange[i]];
        }
        return ret;
    }

/**
 *
 * @param length
 * @param shape
 * @param rearrange
 * @return
 */
    INLINEDEF _CUDA_HD void doPermuteSwap(int length, Nd4jLong **shape, int *rearrange) {
        if(length == 1) {
            return;
        }
        else {
            Nd4jLong *shapeDeref = *shape;
            if(shape::prodLong(shapeDeref,length) < 2) {
                return;
            }
        }

        bool inOrder = true;
        for(int i = 0; i < length - 1; i++) {
            inOrder = inOrder && rearrange[i] + 1 == rearrange[i + 1];

        }

        //all in order, nothing to do
        if(inOrder)
            return;


        Nd4jLong *shapeDeref = *shape;
        //we know they are just reversed, dimension length of 2
        if(length == 2) {
            auto shapeFirst = shapeDeref[0];
            auto shapeSecond = shapeDeref[1];
            shapeDeref[0] = shapeSecond;
            shapeDeref[1] = shapeFirst;
            return;
        }
        else if(length == 1) {
            //no permute
            return;
        }

        auto temp = new Nd4jLong[length];
        memcpy(temp,shapeDeref,sizeof(Nd4jLong) * length);
        for (int i = 0; i < length; i++) {
            shapeDeref[i] = temp[rearrange[i]];
        }

        delete[] temp;
    }


    INLINEDEF _CUDA_HD void permuteShapeBufferInPlace(Nd4jLong *shapeBuffer, int *rearrange, Nd4jLong *out) {
        if(shapeBuffer != out)
            memcpy(out,shapeBuffer,sizeof(Nd4jLong) * shape::shapeInfoLength(shapeBuffer));

        shape::doPermuteShapeInfo(out, rearrange);
    }

    INLINEDEF _CUDA_HD Nd4jLong *permuteShapeBuffer(Nd4jLong const* shapeBuffer, int* rearrange) {
        auto len = shape::shapeInfoLength(shape::rank(shapeBuffer));
        Nd4jLong *copy = shape::copyOf(len, shapeBuffer);
        shape::doPermuteShapeInfo(copy,rearrange);
        return copy;
    }

    INLINEDEF _CUDA_HD void doPermuteShapeInfo(Nd4jLong *shapeInfo, const int *rearrange, Nd4jLong len) {

         if(len == -1)   // calculate array length if it is not given
            len = shape::length(shapeInfo);

        //check whether shape is like {1} or {1,1} or {1,1,1,1,...} - in this case we don't need permute
        if(len == 1)
            return;

        const int rank = shape::rank(shapeInfo);

        // check whether rearrange is like {0,1,2,3,...}  - in this case we don't need permute as well
        bool isPermutNecessary = false;
        for(int i = 0; i < rank; ++i)
            if(rearrange[i] != i) {
               isPermutNecessary = true;
               break;
            }

        if(!isPermutNecessary)
            return;

        // check whether rearrange contains correct indexes
        for(int i = 0; i < rank; ++i)
            if(rearrange[i] >= rank || rearrange[i] < 0) {
                printf("shape::doPermuteShapeInfo function failed: rearrange indexes are incorrect !\n");
                return;
            }

        // if everything is ok then perform permute
        auto temp = new Nd4jLong[shape::shapeInfoLength(rank) - 3];
        memcpy(temp, shapeInfo, sizeof(Nd4jLong) * (shape::shapeInfoLength(rank) - 3));
        for (int i = 0; i < rank; ++i) {
            shapeInfo[i + 1]        = temp[rearrange[i] + 1];
            shapeInfo[i + 1 + rank] = temp[rearrange[i] + 1 + rank];
        }

        shape::checkStridesEwsAndOrder(shapeInfo);

        delete[] temp;
    }


    INLINEDEF _CUDA_HD Nd4jLong *createPermuteIndexes(int originalRank, int *dimension,int dimensionLength) {
        int delta = originalRank - dimensionLength;

        traceNew(17);

        Nd4jLong *ret = new Nd4jLong[originalRank];
        for(int i = 0; i < delta; i++) {
            ret[i] = i + dimensionLength;
        }

        for(int i = delta; i  < originalRank; i++) {
            ret[i] = i - delta;
        }

        return ret;
    }

/**
 * Get the ordering for the device
 * @param length
 * @param shape
 * @param stride
 * @param elementStride
 * @return
 */
    INLINEDEF _CUDA_HD char getOrder(int length, Nd4jLong *shape, Nd4jLong *stride, int elementStride) {
        Nd4jLong sd = 1;
        int dim = -1;
        int i = -1;
        int cContiguous = 1;
        int isFortran = 1;

        for (i = length - 1; i >= 0; --i) {
            dim = shape[i];

            if (stride[i] != sd) {
                cContiguous = 0;
                break;
            }
            /* contiguous, if it got this far */
            if (dim == 0) {
                break;
            }
            sd *= dim;

        }

        /* check if fortran contiguous */
        sd = elementStride;
        for (i = 0; i < length; ++i) {
            dim = shape[i];
            if (stride[i] != sd) {
                isFortran = 0;
            }
            if (dim == 0) {
                break;
            }
            sd *= dim;

        }

        if (isFortran && cContiguous)
            return 'a';
        else if (isFortran && !cContiguous)
            return 'f';
        else if (!isFortran && !cContiguous)
            return 'c';
        else
            return 'c';

    }





/**
 * Ensure that every value in the re arrange
 * array is unique
 * @param arr
 * @param shape
 * @param arrLength
 * @param shapeLength
 * @return
 */

    template <typename T>
    INLINEDEF _CUDA_HD int checkArrangeArray(T *arr, int arrLength, int shapeLength) {
        if (arrLength != shapeLength)
            return -1;
        for (int i = 0; i < arrLength; i++) {
            if (arr[i] >= arrLength || arr[i] < 0)
                return -1;
        }

        for (int i = 0; i < arrLength; i++) {
            for (int j = 0; j < arrLength; j++) {
                if (i != j && arr[i] == arr[j])
                    return -1;
            }
        }

        return 1;
    }


    INLINEDEF _CUDA_HD void traceNew(int id) {
        //printf("new happened: [%i]\n", id);

#ifndef __CUDACC__
        //fflush(stdout);
#endif
    }

/**
 * Permute the shape information
 * @param info the shape information to permute
 * @param rearrange the order to re arrange
 * @param rank the rank of the rearrange array
 */
    INLINEDEF _CUDA_HD void permute(ShapeInformation **info, int *rearrange, int rank) {
        ShapeInformation *infoDeref = *info;
        checkArrangeArray(rearrange, rank, rank);
        shape::doPermuteSwap(rank, &infoDeref->shape, rearrange);
        shape::doPermuteSwap(rank, &infoDeref->stride, rearrange);
        char order = getOrder(rank,
                              infoDeref->shape,
                              infoDeref->stride,
                              infoDeref->elementWiseStride);
        infoDeref->order = order;

    }

/**
 * Returns whether the
 * given shape is a vector or not
 * @param shape the shape of the array
 * @param rank the rank of the shape
 */
    INLINEDEF _CUDA_HD int isVector(Nd4jLong const* shape, int rank) {
        if (rank == 0)
            return 0;

        if (rank == 1)
            return 1;

        if (rank > 2)
            return 0;
        else if (rank <= 2) {
            if (shape[0] == 1 || shape[1] == 1)
                return 1;
        }
        return 0;
    }

    INLINEDEF _CUDA_HD bool isLikeVector(Nd4jLong const* shapeInfo, int& posOfNonUnityDim) {

        int numOfNonUnity = 0;
        for(int i = 1; i <= shapeInfo[0]; ++i) {
            if(shapeInfo[i] != 1) {
                ++numOfNonUnity;
                posOfNonUnityDim = i-1;
            }
        }

        return numOfNonUnity == 1 && shapeInfo[0] > 2;
    }

    INLINEDEF _CUDA_HD bool isCommonVector(const Nd4jLong *shapeInfo, int& posOfNonUnityDim) {

        if(rank(shapeInfo) > 0 && length(shapeInfo) == 1) {
            posOfNonUnityDim = -1;
            return true;
        }

        int numOfNonUnity = 0;
        for(int i = 1; i <= shapeInfo[0]; ++i) {
            if(shapeInfo[i] != 1) {
                ++numOfNonUnity;
                posOfNonUnityDim = i-1;
            }
        }
        return numOfNonUnity == 1;
    }

    INLINEDEF _CUDA_H Nd4jLong const* detachShape(Nd4jLong const* originalShape) {
        Nd4jLong *newShape = new Nd4jLong[shape::shapeInfoLength(originalShape)];
        memcpy(newShape, originalShape, shape::shapeInfoByteLength(originalShape));

        return newShape;
    }


    INLINEDEF _CUDA_H Nd4jLong* copyShape(Nd4jLong const* originalShape) {
        Nd4jLong *newShape = new Nd4jLong[shape::shapeInfoLength(originalShape)];
        memcpy(newShape, originalShape, shape::shapeInfoByteLength(originalShape));

        return newShape;
    }

    INLINEDEF _CUDA_HD int isVector(const Nd4jLong *shapeInfo) {
        return isVector(shape::shapeOf(const_cast<Nd4jLong*>(shapeInfo)), shape::rank(shapeInfo));
    }

    INLINEDEF _CUDA_HD bool isRowVector(const Nd4jLong *shapeInfo) {
        bool isVector = shape::isVector(shapeInfo) == 1;
        bool shapeFirstOne = shape::shapeOf(const_cast<Nd4jLong*>(shapeInfo))[0] == 1;
        return isVector && shapeFirstOne;
    }

    INLINEDEF _CUDA_HD bool isColumnVector(const Nd4jLong *shapeInfo) {
        bool isVector = shape::isVector(shapeInfo) == 1;
        bool shapeFirstOne = shape::shapeOf(shapeInfo)[0] == 1;
        return isVector && !shapeFirstOne;
    }

//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
INLINEDEF _CUDA_HD int numOfNonUnitDims(const int rank, const Nd4jLong* inShape) {

    int num = 0;

    for(uint i = 0; i < rank; ++i)
        if(inShape[i] != 1)
            ++num;

    return num;
}

    INLINEDEF _CUDA_HD int oneDimEqualToLength(Nd4jLong *shape, int rank) {
        for(int i = 0; i < rank; i++) {
            if(shape[i] == shape::prodLong(shape,rank))
                return 1;
        }

        return 0;
    }

    INLINEDEF _CUDA_HD int oneDimEqualToLength(Nd4jLong *shapeInfo) {
        return oneDimEqualToLength(shape::shapeOf(shapeInfo),shape::rank(shapeInfo));
    }

/**
* Returns whether the
* given shape is a vector or not
* @param shape the shape of the array
* @param rank the rank of the shape
*/
    INLINEDEF _CUDA_HD int isMatrix(Nd4jLong *shape, int rank) {
        if (rank > 2)
            return 0;
        else if (rank <= 2) {
            if (shape[0] == 1 || shape[1] == 1)
                return 0;
        }

        return 1;
    }

    INLINEDEF _CUDA_HD int isMatrix(Nd4jLong *shapeInfo) {
        return isMatrix(shape::shapeOf(shapeInfo),shape::rank(shapeInfo));
    }

/**
 * Returns the shape portion of an information
 * buffer
 */
    INLINEDEF _CUDA_HD Nd4jLong *shapeOf(Nd4jLong *shapeInfo) {

        return shapeInfo + 1;
    }

    INLINEDEF _CUDA_HD Nd4jLong *shapeOf(const Nd4jLong *shapeInfo) {

        return  shape::shapeOf(const_cast<Nd4jLong*>(shapeInfo));
    }

/**
 * Return a copy of a buffer.
 * This buffer allocates memory
 * that must be freed elsewhere.
 */
    template <typename T>
    INLINEDEF _CUDA_HD T *copyOf(Nd4jLong length, T const* toCopy) {
        traceNew(18);

        T *ret = new T[length];
        return copyOf(length, toCopy, ret);
    }

    template <typename T>
    INLINEDEF _CUDA_HD T* copyOf(Nd4jLong length, T const* toCopy, T *ret) {
        memcpy(ret, toCopy, sizeof(T)*length);
        return ret;
    }

/**
* Return a copy of a buffer.
* This buffer allocates memory
* that must be freed elsewhere.
*/
    template <typename T>
    INLINEDEF _CUDA_HD void copyTo(Nd4jLong length, T const* from, T *to) {
        memcpy(to, from, sizeof(T)*length);
    }

/**
* Return a copy of a buffer.
* This buffer allocates memory
* that must be freed elsewhere.
*/
    INLINEDEF _CUDA_HD void copyTo(int length, Nd4jLong const* from, Nd4jLong *to, Nd4jLong *indexes) {
        for(int i = 0; i < length; i++) {
            to[i] = from[indexes[i]];
        }
    }

/**
 * Permute the given strides
 * in the given rearrange order
 * @param toPermute the buffer to permute
 * @param shapeRank the length of the buffer to permute
 * @param rearrange the rearrange order (must be 0 based indexes
 * and all must be filled in)
 * @return the rearranged array
 */
 /*
    INLINEDEF _CUDA_HD Nd4jLong *permutedStrides(Nd4jLong *toPermute, int shapeRank, int *rearrange) {
        Nd4jLong *strideCopy = copyOf(shapeRank, toPermute);
        checkArrangeArray(rearrange, shapeRank, shapeRank);
        Nd4jLong *newStride = doPermuteSwap(shapeRank, strideCopy, rearrange);
        delete[] strideCopy;
        return newStride;
    }
    */

/**
 * Return the slice (shape + 1 in pointer arithmetic)
 * @param shape the shape to take the slice of
 * @return the shape array - the first entry
 */
    INLINEDEF _CUDA_HD Nd4jLong *slice(Nd4jLong *shape) {
        return shape + 1;
    }

    INLINEDEF _CUDA_HD int slices(Nd4jLong *shapeBuffer) {
        return static_cast<int>(shape::shapeOf(shapeBuffer)[0]);
    }


    INLINEDEF _CUDA_HD Nd4jLong *sliceOfShapeBuffer(Nd4jLong sliceIdx, Nd4jLong *shapeBuffer) {
        int rank = shape::rank(shapeBuffer);
        int newRank = rank - 1;
        if(newRank < 2)
            newRank = 2;
        Nd4jLong *newShapeBuffer = new Nd4jLong[shape::shapeInfoLength(newRank)];
        newShapeBuffer[0] = newRank;
        Nd4jLong *currShape = shape::shapeOf(shapeBuffer);
        Nd4jLong *currStride = shape::stride(shapeBuffer);
        //initialize new shape and stride by taking the shape and stride + 1
        //and adding to the shape information
        //a slice is always just taking the existing shape and cutting the first index off
        //of the shape and stride
        Nd4jLong *newShape = shape::shapeOf(newShapeBuffer);
        Nd4jLong *newStride = shape::stride(newShapeBuffer);
        if(shape::isVector(shapeBuffer)) {
            Nd4jLong *currShape = shape::shapeOf(shapeBuffer);
            //row vector: slice index 0 is a valid index, just copy the whole thing
            if(currShape[0] == 1) {
                if(sliceIdx == 0) {
                    memcpy(newShapeBuffer,shapeBuffer,shape::shapeInfoByteLength(shape::rank(shapeBuffer)));
                    return newShapeBuffer;
                }
            }
                //column vector: this will be a scalar
            else {
                delete[] newShapeBuffer;
                Nd4jLong *scalar = shape::createScalarShapeInfo();
                int offset = shape::offset(shapeBuffer);
                scalar[shape::shapeInfoLength(2) - 3] = offset + sliceIdx;
                return scalar;
            }
        }
        else if(shape::isMatrix(shapeBuffer)) {
            newShape[0] = 1;
            newShape[1] = currShape[1];
            newStride[0] = 1;
            newStride[1] = currStride[1];
        }
        else {
            for(int i = 0; i < newRank; i++) {
                newShape[i] = currShape[i + 1];
                newStride[i] = currStride[i + 1];
            }
        }

        auto indices = new Nd4jLong[rank];
        memset((void *) indices,0,rank * sizeof(Nd4jLong));
        indices[0] = sliceIdx;
        Nd4jLong offset = shape::getOffset(newShapeBuffer, indices);
        newShapeBuffer[shape::shapeInfoLength(newRank) - 3] = offset;

        // set current order and ews
        newShapeBuffer[2 * newRank + 2] = shape::elementWiseStride(shapeBuffer);
        newShapeBuffer[2 * newRank + 3] = shape::order(shapeBuffer);

        // correct order and ews if necessary
        shape::checkStridesEwsAndOrder(newShapeBuffer);

        delete[] indices;

        return newShapeBuffer;
    }

/**
 * Returns the length of the
 * shape information buffer:
 * rank * 2 + 3
 * @param rank the rank to get the shape
 * info length for
 * @return rank * 2 + 4
 */
    INLINEDEF _CUDA_HD int shapeInfoLength(int rank) {
        //FIXME magic numbers
        return rank * 2 + 4;
    }

    INLINEDEF _CUDA_HD int shapeInfoLength(Nd4jLong* shape) {
        return shapeInfoLength(static_cast<int>(shape[0]));
    }

    INLINEDEF _CUDA_HD int shapeInfoLength(const Nd4jLong* shape) {
        return shapeInfoLength(static_cast<int>(shape[0]));
    }

    INLINEDEF _CUDA_HD size_t shapeInfoByteLength(int rank) {
        //FIXME magic numbers
        return (rank * 2 + 4) * sizeof(Nd4jLong);
    }

    INLINEDEF _CUDA_HD size_t shapeInfoByteLength(const Nd4jLong* shapeInfo) {
        //FIXME magic numbers
        return shapeInfoByteLength((int) shapeInfo[0]);
    }

/**
 * Returns the rank portion of
 * an information buffer
 */
    INLINEDEF _CUDA_HD  int rank(const Nd4jLong *buffer) {
        return static_cast<int>(buffer[0]);
    }

    INLINEDEF _CUDA_HD  int rank(const int *buffer) {
        return buffer[0];
    }

    INLINEDEF _CUDA_HD  int rank(const unsigned int *buffer) {
        return static_cast<int>(buffer[0]);
    }

    INLINEDEF _CUDA_HD Nd4jLong* ews(Nd4jLong* shapeInfo) {
        return shapeInfo + 2 * shapeInfo[0] + 2;
    }

/**
 * Converts a raw int buffer of the layout:
 * rank
 * shape
 * stride
 * offset
 * elementWiseStride
 *
 * where shape and stride are both straight int pointers
 */
    INLINEDEF _CUDA_HD ShapeInformation *infoFromBuffer(Nd4jLong *buffer) {

        traceNew(19);

        auto info = new ShapeInformation;
        auto length = shapeInfoLength(rank(buffer));
        auto rank = buffer[0];

        //start after rank
        info->shape = buffer + 1;
        info->stride = buffer + (1 + rank);
        info->rank = rank;
        info->offset = buffer[length - 3];
        info->elementWiseStride = buffer[length - 2];
        Nd4jLong *stride = buffer + 1 + rank;
        info->stride = stride;
        info->order = (char) buffer[length - 1];
        return info;
    }

/**
 * Returns the stride portion of an information
 * buffer
 */
    INLINEDEF _CUDA_HD Nd4jLong *stride(Nd4jLong *buffer) {
        return buffer + (1 + rank(buffer));
    }

    INLINEDEF _CUDA_HD Nd4jLong *stride(const Nd4jLong *buffer) {
        return stride(const_cast<Nd4jLong *>(buffer));
    }

    INLINEDEF _CUDA_HD bool isEmpty(const Nd4jLong *shapeInfo) {
        return ((shape::extra(const_cast<Nd4jLong*>(shapeInfo)) & ARRAY_EMPTY) == ARRAY_EMPTY);
    }


/**
 * Compute the length of the given shape
 */
    INLINEDEF _CUDA_HD Nd4jLong length(const Nd4jLong *shapeInfo) {

	const int rank = shape::rank(shapeInfo);

        if (rank == 0) {
            if (isEmpty(shapeInfo))
                return 0L;
            return 1L;
        }

        if (rank == 1)
            return shapeInfo[1];

        // if(shape::elementWiseStride(shapeInfo) == 1) { // contiguous
        //     if(shape::order(shapeInfo) == 'c')
        //         return shapeInfo[1] * shapeInfo[rank + 1];      // first dim * first stride
        //     return shapeInfo[rank] * shapeInfo[2 * rank];       // last  dim * last  stride
        // }

        return shape::prodLong(shape::shapeOf(const_cast<Nd4jLong*>(shapeInfo)), rank);
    }

    INLINEDEF _CUDA_HD Nd4jLong length(std::initializer_list<int>& shape) {
        Nd4jLong ret = 1;
        for (auto v : shape) {
            ret *= v;
        }
        return ret;
    }

    INLINEDEF _CUDA_HD Nd4jLong length(std::initializer_list<Nd4jLong>& shape) {
        Nd4jLong ret = 1;
        for (auto v : shape) {
            ret *= v;
        }
        return ret;
    }

/***
 * Returns the offset
 * portion of an information buffer
 */
    INLINEDEF _CUDA_HD Nd4jLong offset(Nd4jLong *buffer) {
        return buffer[shape::shapeInfoLength(shape::rank(buffer)) - 3];
    }

    INLINEDEF _CUDA_HD Nd4jLong& extra(Nd4jLong *buffer) {
        return buffer[shape::shapeInfoLength(shape::rank(buffer)) - 3];
    }


/**
 * Returns the ordering
 * for this shape information buffer
 */
    INLINEDEF _CUDA_HD char order(const Nd4jLong *buffer) {
        //FIXME magic numbers
        return static_cast<char>(buffer[buffer[0] * 2 + 3]);
    }

/**
 * Returns type
 */
    INLINEDEF _CUDA_HD Nd4jLong type(const Nd4jLong *shapeInfo) {
        return shapeInfo[2 * shapeInfo[0] + 1];
    }

/**
 * Returns the element wise stride for this information
 * buffer
 */
    INLINEDEF _CUDA_HD Nd4jLong elementWiseStride(const Nd4jLong *buffer) {
        return buffer[shapeInfoLength(static_cast<int>(buffer[0])) - 2];
    }

/**
* Returns the element wise stride for this information
* buffer relative to a dimension and reduction index
*/
    INLINEDEF _CUDA_HD Nd4jLong reductionIndexElementWiseStride(Nd4jLong* buffer, int* dimension, int dimensionLength) {
        if(dimensionLength > 1) {
            if(shape::order(buffer) == 'f') {
                /**
                        * The element wise stride belongs to a reduction index.
                        * When used out of order, we can get rid of the data
                        * dependencies and rely on using the max dimension
                        * specified for stride instead.
                        * Say we take the sum(0,1) along arr
                        * we can use arr.stride(1) as a representation
                        * along which to iterate.
                        */
                if(shape::shapeOf(buffer)[dimension[dimensionLength - 1]] != 1) {
                    //int tadElementWiseStride = shape::stride(buffer)[dimension[dimensionLength - 1]];
                    //return tadElementWiseStride;
                    auto tadElementWiseStride = shape::stride(buffer)[dimension[0]];
                    return tadElementWiseStride;
                }

                return 1;

            }
            else {
                /**
                        * The element wise stride belongs to a reduction index.
                        * When used out of order, we can get rid of the data
                        * dependencies and rely on using the max dimension
                        * specified for stride instead.
                        * Say we take the sum(0,1) along arr
                        * we can use arr.stride(1) as a representation
                        * along which to iterate.
                        */
                if(shape::shapeOf(buffer)[dimension[dimensionLength - 1]] != 1) {
                    auto tadElementWiseStride = shape::stride(buffer)[dimension[dimensionLength - 1]];
                    return tadElementWiseStride;
                }

                return 1;
            }
        }
        else {
            if(shape::order(buffer) == 'f') {
                /**
                        * The element wise stride belongs to a reduction index.
                        * When used out of order, we can get rid of the data
                        * dependencies and rely on using the max dimension
                        * specified for stride instead.
                        * Say we take the sum(0,1) along arr
                        * we can use arr.stride(1) as a representation
                        * along which to iterate.
                        */
                auto tadElementWiseStride = shape::stride(buffer)[dimension[0]];
                return tadElementWiseStride;
            }
            else {
                /**
                        * The element wise stride belongs to a reduction index.
                        * When used out of order, we can get rid of the data
                        * dependencies and rely on using the max dimension
                        * specified for stride instead.
                        * Say we take the sum(0,1) along arr
                        * we can use arr.stride(1) as a representation
                        * along which to iterate.
                        */
                auto tadElementWiseStride = shape::stride(buffer)[dimension[dimensionLength - 1]];
                return tadElementWiseStride;
            }
        }

    }

/**
 * Returns whether
 * the given shape info buffer
 * represents a scalar shape
 */
    INLINEDEF _CUDA_HD int isScalar(const Nd4jLong *info) {

        const int rank = shape::rank(info);

        if(rank > 2)
            return 0;
        if(rank == 0)
            return 1;
        if(rank == 1)
            return shape::shapeOf(const_cast<Nd4jLong*>(info))[0] == 1;
        if(rank == 2)
            return shape::shapeOf(const_cast<Nd4jLong*>(info))[0] == 1 && shape::shapeOf(const_cast<Nd4jLong*>(info))[1] == 1;

        return 0;
    }

/**
 * Returns whether
 * the given shape information
 * represents a scalar
 * shape or not
 */
    INLINEDEF _CUDA_HD int isScalar(volatile ShapeInformation *info) {

        const int rank = info->rank;

        if(rank > 2)
            return 0;
        if(rank == 1)
            return info->shape[0] == 1;
        if(rank == 2)
            return info->shape[0] == 1 && info->shape[1] == 1;

        return 0;
    }

/**
 * Return a copy of this array with the
 * given index omitted
 *
 * @param data  the data to copy
 * @param indexes the index of the item to remove
 * @param dataLength the length of the data array
 * @param indexesLength the length of the data array
 * @return the new array with the omitted
 *
 * item
 */
    template <typename T1, typename T2>
    INLINEDEF _CUDA_HD void removeIndex(T1 const* data, T2 const* indexes, Nd4jLong dataLength, Nd4jLong indexesLength, T1 *ret) {

        int count = 0;
        int absLength = dataLength - indexesLength;
        for (int i = 0; i < dataLength && count < absLength; i++) {
            int contains = 0;
            for (int j = 0; j < indexesLength; j++) {
                if (i == indexes[j]) {
                    contains = 1;
                    break;
                }
            }

            if (!contains) {
                ret[count] = data[i];
                count++;
            }
        }
    }

    /**
 * Return a copy of this array with the
 * given index omitted
 *
 * @param data  the data to copy
 * @param indexes the index of the item to remove
 * @param dataLength the length of the data array
 * @param indexesLength the length of the data array
 * @return the new array with the omitted
 *
 * item
 */
    template <typename T1, typename T2>
    INLINEDEF _CUDA_HD T1* removeIndex(T1 const* data, T2 const* indexes, Nd4jLong dataLength, Nd4jLong indexesLength) {
        auto lengthOfArr = dataLength - indexesLength;
        if(lengthOfArr < 0) {
            printf("Remove index call created a <= 0 length array. This was likely not intended.");
        }

        auto ret = new T1[lengthOfArr];
        memset(ret,0,sizeof(T1)  * lengthOfArr);
        removeIndex<T1, T2>(data, indexes, dataLength, indexesLength, ret);
        return ret;
    }

    INLINEDEF _CUDA_HD Nd4jLong* everyIndexBut(const Nd4jLong *indexes,int indexesLength,int begin,int end) {
        int len = end - indexesLength;

        traceNew(20);

        auto ret = new Nd4jLong[len];
        int retIdx = 0;
        //not here that we do 0 based indexing for end - this assumes things like:
        //0 to 4 are specified
        for(int i = begin; i < end ; i++) {
            bool found = false;
            for(int j = 0; j < indexesLength; j++) {
                if(indexes[j] == i) {
                    found = true;
                    break;
                }
            }

            if(!found) {
                ret[retIdx++] = i;
            }

        }

        return ret;

    }

/**
 * Computes the offset for accessing
 * a global element given the shape information
 * and the offset to be read.
 */
#ifdef __CUDACC__
    INLINEDEF  __device__ int tadOffset(ShapeInformation *xInfo, int offset) {
    return offset + threadIdx.x * xInfo->elementWiseStride;
}
#endif

/**
 * Returns a shape
 * forces the given length to be 2.
 * @param shape the shape to modify
 * @param dimension the dimension (row or column)
 * for the shape to be returned as
 * @return the new shape
 */
    INLINEDEF _CUDA_HD Nd4jLong *ensureVectorShape(Nd4jLong *shape, int dimension) {
        traceNew(21);

        Nd4jLong *ret = new Nd4jLong[2];

        if (dimension == 0) {
            ret[0] = 1;
            ret[1] = shape[0];
        } else {
            ret[0] = shape[0];
            ret[1] = 1;
        }

        return ret;
    }

/**
 * Returns a shape
 * forces the given length to be 2.
 * @param shape the shape to modify
 * @param dimension the dimension (row or column)
 * for the shape to be returned as
 * @return the new shape
 */
    INLINEDEF _CUDA_HD Nd4jLong *ensureVectorShape(Nd4jLong *shape) {
        return ensureVectorShape(shape, 0);
    }

    /**
     * This method does STRICT comparison for two shape buffers
     *
     * @param shape
     * @return
     */
    INLINEDEF _CUDA_HD bool equalsStrict(const Nd4jLong *shapeA, const Nd4jLong *shapeB) {
        if (shapeA[0] != shapeB[0])
            return false;

        if (shapeA[0] == 0)
            return true;

        // we do full comparison here
        int length = shape::shapeInfoLength(shapeA[0]);

        for (int e = 1; e < length; e++)
            if (shapeA[e] != shapeB[e])
                return false;

        return true;
    }

//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
INLINEDEF _CUDA_HD bool haveSameShapeAndStrides(const Nd4jLong *shapeInfo1, const Nd4jLong *shapeInfo2) {

    if (shapeInfo1[0] != shapeInfo2[0])
        return false;

    if (shapeInfo1[0] == 0)
        return true;

    for (uint e = 0; e < static_cast<uint>(shape::rank(shapeInfo1)); ++e)
        if (shape::shapeOf(shapeInfo1)[e] != shape::shapeOf(shapeInfo2)[e] || shape::stride(shapeInfo1)[e] != shape::stride(shapeInfo2)[e])
            return false;

    return true;
}

//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
INLINEDEF _CUDA_HD bool haveSameShapeAndStrides(const Nd4jLong *shapeInfo1, const Nd4jLong *shapeInfo2, const Nd4jLong *shapeInfo3) {

    return shape::haveSameShapeAndStrides(shapeInfo1, shapeInfo2) && shape::haveSameShapeAndStrides(shapeInfo1, shapeInfo3);
}
    INLINEDEF _CUDA_HD int sizeAt(const Nd4jLong *shapeInfo, const int dim) {
        if (0 == rank(shapeInfo))
            return 1;
        if (dim >= 0)
            return shapeInfo[1+dim];
        else
            return shapeInfo[1+(rank(shapeInfo) + dim)];
    }

    INLINEDEF _CUDA_HD Nd4jLong strideAt(const Nd4jLong *shapeInfo, const int dim) {
        if (0 == rank(shapeInfo))
            return 1;
        if (dim >= 0)
            return shapeInfo[1 + rank(shapeInfo) + dim];
        else
            return shapeInfo[1 + 2*rank(shapeInfo) + dim];
    }

    /**
     * This method does SOFT comparison for two shape buffers, we compare only rank & shapes
     *
     * @param shape
     * @return
     */
    INLINEDEF _CUDA_HD bool equalsSoft(const Nd4jLong *shapeA, const Nd4jLong *shapeB) {
        if (shapeA[0] != shapeB[0])
            return false;

        if (shapeA[0] == 0)
            return true;

        // we compare only shapes, and ignoring stride & ews
        auto length = shapeA[0];

        for (int e = 1; e <= length; e++)
            if (shapeA[e] != shapeB[e])
                return false;

        return true;
    }

    INLINEDEF _CUDA_HD bool equalsTypesAndShapesSoft(const Nd4jLong *shapeA, const Nd4jLong *shapeB) {

        return equalsSoft(shapeA, shapeB) && shapeA[shapeInfoLength(shapeA) - 3] == shapeB[shapeInfoLength(shapeB) - 3];
    }

/**
 * Generate an int buffer
 * up to the given length
 * at the specified increment
 *
 */
    template <typename T>
    INLINEDEF _CUDA_HD T* range(int from, int to, int increment) {
        int diff = sd::math::nd4j_abs<int>(from - to);
        int retLength = diff / increment;
        T *ret;

        traceNew(22);

        if(diff / increment < 1)
            ret = new T[1];
        else
            ret = new T[diff / increment];
        if (from < to) {
            int count = 0;
            for (int i = from; i < to; i += increment) {
                if (count >= retLength)
                    break;
                ret[count++] = i;
            }
        } else if (from > to) {
            int count = 0;
            for (int i = from - 1; i >= to; i -= increment) {
                if (count >= retLength)
                    break;
                ret[count++] = i;
            }
        }

        return ret;
    }

/**
 * Generate a range
 * beginning at from and ending at to
 * incrementing by 1
 * @param from the start
 * @param to the end
 * @return the int array starting at from and ending at to
 */

    template <typename T>
    INLINEDEF _CUDA_HD T* range(int from, int to) {
        return range<T>(from, to, 1);
    }

/**
 * Keep the given indexes in the data
 * @param data
 * @param index
 * @param indexLength
 * @param dataLength
 * @return
 */
    INLINEDEF _CUDA_HD Nd4jLong *keep(volatile Nd4jLong *data, int const* index, int indexLength, int dataLength) {

        traceNew(23);

        Nd4jLong *ret = new Nd4jLong[indexLength];
        int count = 0;
        for (int i = 0; i < dataLength; i++) {
            int contains = 0;
            for (int j = 0; j < indexLength; j++) {
                if (i == index[j]) {
                    contains = 1;
                    break;
                }
            }

            if (contains)
                ret[count++] = data[i];
        }
        return ret;
    }

/**
 * Generate a reverse
 * copy of the data
 */

    template <typename T>
    INLINEDEF _CUDA_HD T* reverseCopy(T const* data, Nd4jLong length) {
        if (length < 1)
            return nullptr;

        traceNew(24);

        T *copy = new T[length];
        for (Nd4jLong i = 0; i <= length / 2; i++) {
            T temp = data[i];
            copy[i] = data[length - i - 1];
            copy[length - i - 1] = temp;
        }
        return copy;
    }

    template <typename T>
    INLINEDEF _CUDA_HD void reverseCopyTo(T const* from, T *to, Nd4jLong length) {
        if (length < 1)
            return;
        for (Nd4jLong i = 0; i <= length / 2; i++) {
            T temp = from[i];
            to[i] = from[length - i - 1];
            to[length - i - 1] = temp;
        }
    }

    template <typename T>
    INLINEDEF _CUDA_HD void reverseCopyTo(T const* from, T *to, Nd4jLong *indexes, Nd4jLong length) {
        if (length < 1)
            return;

        for (Nd4jLong i = 0; i <= length / 2; i++) {
            T temp = from[indexes[i]];
            to[i] = from[indexes[length - i - 1]];
            to[length - i - 1] = temp;
        }

    }

/**
 *
 * @param arr1
 * @param arr1Length
 * @param arr2
 * @param arr2Length
 * @return
 */
    template <typename T>
    INLINEDEF _CUDA_HD T* concat(T const* arr1, Nd4jLong const arr1Length, T const* arr2, Nd4jLong const arr2Length) {

        traceNew(25);

        T *ret = new T[arr1Length + arr2Length];
        std::memcpy(ret, arr1, arr1Length * sizeof(T));
        std::memcpy(ret + arr1Length, arr2, arr2Length * sizeof(T));
        return ret;
    }

/**
 *
 * @param numArrays
 * @param numTotalElements
 * @param arr
 * @param lengths
 * @return
 */
    template <typename T>
    INLINEDEF _CUDA_HD T *concat(Nd4jLong const numArrays, Nd4jLong const numTotalElements, T const **arr, Nd4jLong const *lengths) {

        T* ret = new T[numTotalElements];
        Nd4jLong count = 0;

        for (Nd4jLong i = 0; i < numArrays; i++) {
            for (Nd4jLong j = 0; j < lengths[i]; j++) {
                ret[count++] = arr[i][j];
            }
        }

        return ret;
    }

/**
 * Get the length per slice of the
 * given shape and the dimension
 * @param rank the rank of the shape
 * @param shape the shape of to get
 * the length per slice for
 * @param dimension the dimension to
 * get the length per slice for
 * @param dimensionLength the length of the dimension array
 * @return the length per slice of the given shape
 * along the given dimension
 */
    INLINEDEF _CUDA_HD Nd4jLong lengthPerSlice(int rank, Nd4jLong const* shape, int const* dimension, int dimensionLength) {
        if(shape::isVector(shape,rank)) {
            //return total length for row vectors
            if(dimensionLength == 1 && shape[0] == 1) {
                return shape::prodLong(shape,rank);
            }
        }
        else if(rank == dimensionLength)
            return shape::prodLong(shape,rank);
        int absSelta = sd::math::nd4j_abs<int>(rank - dimensionLength);
        traceNew(27);
        auto ret2 = shape::removeIndex<Nd4jLong>(shape, dimension, rank, dimensionLength);
        auto ret = prodLong(ret2, absSelta);
        delete[] ret2;
        return ret;
    }

/**
 * calculates the offset for a tensor
 * @param index
 * @param arr
 * @param tensorShape
 * @return
 */
    INLINEDEF _CUDA_HD Nd4jLong sliceOffsetForTensor(int rank, int index, Nd4jLong const* shape, Nd4jLong const* tensorShape, int tensorShapeLength, int const* dimension, int dimensionLength) {
        auto tensorLength = prodLong(tensorShape, tensorShapeLength);
        auto lengthPerSlice2 = lengthPerSlice(rank, shape, dimension, dimensionLength);
        if (lengthPerSlice2 <= 0) {
            return 0;
        }

        Nd4jLong offset = index * tensorLength / lengthPerSlice2;
        return offset;
    }

    /**
 * calculates the offset for a tensor
 * @param index
 * @param arr
 * @param tensorShape
 * @return
 */

    INLINEDEF _CUDA_HD Nd4jLong sliceOffsetForTensor(int index,int tensorLength,int lengthPerSlice2) {
        Nd4jLong offset = index * tensorLength / lengthPerSlice2;
        return offset;
    }


#ifdef __CUDACC__
/**
* Computes the offset for accessing
* a global element given the shape information
* and the offset to be read.
*/
    INLINEDEF _CUDA_D int tadOffset(Nd4jLong *xInfo, int offset) {
    return offset + threadIdx.x * elementWiseStride(xInfo);

}
#endif





/**
 * Computes the number
 * of tensors along
 * a given dimension
 */
    INLINEDEF _CUDA_HD Nd4jLong tensorsAlongDimension(volatile int rank, volatile int length,
                                        volatile Nd4jLong *shape, int *dimension, int dimensionLength) {
        Nd4jLong *tensorShape = shape::keep(shape, dimension, dimensionLength, rank);
        Nd4jLong ret = length / shape::prodLong(tensorShape, dimensionLength);
        delete[] tensorShape;
        return ret;
    }

/**
 * Computes the number
 * of tensors along
 * a given dimension
 */
    INLINEDEF _CUDA_HD Nd4jLong tensorsAlongDimension(Nd4jLong *shapeInfo, int *dimension, int dimensionLength) {
        Nd4jLong *keepShape = shape::shapeOf(shapeInfo);
        Nd4jLong *tensorShape = shape::keep(keepShape, dimension, dimensionLength, rank(shapeInfo));
        Nd4jLong ret = shape::length(shapeInfo) / shape::prodLong(tensorShape, dimensionLength);
        delete[] tensorShape;
        return ret;
    }




/**
* Get an offset for retrieval
* from a data buffer
* based on the given
* shape stride and given indices
* @param baseOffset the offset to start from
* @param shape the shape of the array
* @param stride the stride of the array
* @param indices the indices to iterate over
* @return the double at the specified index
*/

//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
INLINEDEF _CUDA_HD Nd4jLong getOffset(const Nd4jLong *shapeInfo, const Nd4jLong *indices, Nd4jLong baseOffset) {

    Nd4jLong offset = baseOffset;

    for(uint i = 1; i <= shapeInfo[0]; ++i)
        if(shapeInfo[i] != 1)
            offset += indices[i - 1] * shapeInfo[shapeInfo[0] + i];

    return offset;
}

//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
INLINEDEF _CUDA_HD Nd4jLong getOffset(const Nd4jLong *shapeInfo, const int *coords, Nd4jLong baseOffset) {

    Nd4jLong offset = baseOffset;

    for(uint i = 1; i <= shapeInfo[0]; ++i)
        if(shapeInfo[i] != 1)
            offset += coords[i - 1] * shapeInfo[shapeInfo[0] + i];

    return offset;
}

//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
INLINEDEF _CUDA_HD Nd4jLong getOffset(const Nd4jLong *shapeInfo, const uint *coords, Nd4jLong baseOffset) {

    Nd4jLong offset = baseOffset;

    for(uint i = 1; i <= shapeInfo[0]; ++i)
        if(shapeInfo[i] != 1)
            offset += coords[i - 1] * shapeInfo[shapeInfo[0] + i];

    return offset;
}


/**
 * Returns the tensor along dimension
 * for the given block index
 * @param blockSize
 * @param blockIdx
 * @param i
 * @return
 */
    INLINEDEF _CUDA_HD int tadForBlockIndex(int blockSize, int blockIdx, int i) {
        return blockIdx + i * blockSize;
    }

/**
 * Computes the number of tads per block
 *
 */
    INLINEDEF _CUDA_HD int tadsPerBlock(int blockSize, int tads) {
        return  sd::math::nd4j_ceil<double, int>(tads / (double) blockSize);
    }

/**
 * Returns a shape buffer
 * for the shape information metadata.
 */
    INLINEDEF _CUDA_HD Nd4jLong *toShapeBuffer( ShapeInformation *info) {

        traceNew(29);

        auto ret = new Nd4jLong[shapeInfoLength(info->rank)];
        int count = 1;
        int rank = info->rank;

        ret[0] = info->rank;

        for (int i = 0; i < rank; i++) {
            ret[count++] = info->shape[i];
        }

        for (int i = 0; i < rank; i++) {
            ret[count++] = info->stride[i];
        }

        ret[count++] = info->offset;
        ret[count++] = info->elementWiseStride;
        ret[count] = info->order;

        return ret;
    }

    INLINEDEF _CUDA_HD Nd4jLong *toShapeBuffer( ShapeInformation *info, Nd4jLong* ret) {

        int count = 1;
        int rank = info->rank;

        ret[0] = info->rank;

        if (ret[0] == 0) {
            ret[1] = 0;
            ret[2] = 1;
            ret[3] = 99;
            return ret;
        }

        for (int i = 0; i < rank; i++) {
            ret[count++] = info->shape[i];
        }

        for (int i = 0; i < rank; i++) {
            ret[count++] = info->stride[i];
        }

        ret[count++] = info->offset;
        ret[count++] = info->elementWiseStride;
        ret[count++] = info->order;

        return ret;
    }

    INLINEDEF _CUDA_HD void printIntArray(const Nd4jLong *arr, const int length) {
        for(int i = 0; i < length; i++) {
            printf(" %lld ", (long long) arr[i]);
        }

        printf("\n");
    }

    INLINEDEF _CUDA_HD void printIntArray(const int *arr, const int length) {
        for(int i = 0; i < length; i++) {
            printf(" %i ", arr[i]);
        }

        printf("\n");
    }

    INLINEDEF _CUDA_HD void printShapeInfo(Nd4jLong *shapeInfo) {
        int rank = shape::rank(shapeInfo);
        Nd4jLong *shape = shape::shapeOf(shapeInfo);
        printf("Rank %d\n",rank);
        printf("Shape:\n");
        for(int i = 0; i < rank; i++) {
            printf(" %lld ",(long long) shape[i]);
        }

        printf("\n");

        Nd4jLong *stride = shape::stride(shapeInfo);
        printf("Stride:\n");
        for(int i = 0; i < rank; i++) {
            printf(" %lld ", (long long) stride[i]);
        }

        printf("\n");

        printf("Order %c\n",shape::order(shapeInfo));
    }

    INLINEDEF _CUDA_HD void printShapeInfoLinear(const Nd4jLong *shapeInfo) {
        int rank = shape::rank(shapeInfo);
        int lim = shape::shapeInfoLength(rank);
        printf("ShapeInfo: [");
        for (int i = 0; i < lim; i++) {
            printf("%lld", (long long) shapeInfo[i]);

            if (i < lim - 1) {
                printf(", ");
            }
        }
        printf("]\n");
#ifndef __CUDA_ARCH__
        fflush(stdout);
#endif
    }

    INLINEDEF _CUDA_HD void printShapeInfoLinear(const char *msg, int rank, const Nd4jLong *shape, const Nd4jLong *strides) {
        printf("%s : [", msg);
        for (int i = 0; i < rank; i++) {
            printf("%lld, ", (long long) shape[i]);
        }

        for (int i = 0; i < rank; i++) {
            printf("%lld", (long long) strides[i]);

            if (i < rank - 1)
                printf(", ");
        }
        printf("]\n");

#ifndef __CUDA_ARCH__
        fflush(stdout);
#endif
    }

    INLINEDEF _CUDA_HD void printShapeInfoLinear(const char *msg, const Nd4jLong *shapeInfo) {
        int rank = shape::rank(shapeInfo);
        int lim = shape::shapeInfoLength(rank);
        printf("%s : [", msg);
        for (int i = 0; i < lim; i++) {
            printf("%lld", (long long) shapeInfo[i]);

            if (i < lim - 1) {
                printf(", ");
            }
        }
        printf("]\n");
#ifndef __CUDACC__
        fflush(stdout);
#endif
    }

    template <typename T>
    INLINEDEF _CUDA_HD void printArray(void *varr,int length, const char * message) {
        auto arr = reinterpret_cast<T*>(varr);
        if (message != nullptr)
            printf("%s: [", message);
        else
            printf("Array: [");

        for (int i = 0; i < length; i ++) {
            printf("%f", (float) arr[i]);
            if (i + 1 < length) printf(", ");
        }
        printf("]\n");

#ifndef __CUDACC__
        fflush(stdout);
#endif
    }

    INLINEDEF _CUDA_HD void printArray(float *arr,int length) {
        printf("Array: [");
        for (int i = 0; i < length; i ++) {
            printf("%f", arr[i]);
            if (i + 1 < length) printf(", ");
        }
        printf("]\n");
    }
/**
 * Given an linear index, element wise stride
 * and the length of each tad
 * map a linear index to a tad
 * @param i the index to map
 * @param the element wise stride for the tads
 * @param numElementsPerTad the number of elements
 * per tad
 */
    INLINEDEF _CUDA_HD int tadIndex(int i, int elementWiseStride, int numElementsPerTad) {
        return i / (numElementsPerTad * elementWiseStride);
    }

/**
 * Map a tad to a
 * reduction index.
 * @param tadIndexForOriginal the original tad index for the
 * split up problem (eg: split is dimension 3 mapping to a 2,3 problem)
 * @param tadsForReduced the number of tads for the shrunk down problem (eg: 2,3)
 * @param tadsForOriginal the number of tads for the smaller problem (eg: 3)
 */
    INLINEDEF _CUDA_HD int reductionIndexForTad(int tadIndexForOriginal, int tadsForReduced,
                                       int tadsForOriginal) {
        if (tadIndexForOriginal == 0)
            return 0;
        return tadIndexForOriginal / (tadsForOriginal / tadsForReduced);
    }


    INLINEDEF _CUDA_HD void transposeInplace(Nd4jLong *shapeBuffer) {
        int rank = shape::rank(shapeBuffer);
        Nd4jLong *shape = shape::shapeOf(shapeBuffer);
        Nd4jLong *strides = shape::stride(shapeBuffer);

        // swap shape
        for (int e = 0; e < rank / 2; e++) {
            int idx1 = rank - e - 1;
            int idx2 =  e;
            int tmp = shape[idx2];
            shape[idx2] = shape[idx1];
            shape[idx1] = tmp;
        }

        // swap strides
        for (int e = 0; e < rank / 2; e++) {
            int idx1 = rank - e - 1;
            int idx2 =  e;
            int tmp = strides[idx2];
            strides[idx2] = strides[idx1];
            strides[idx1] = tmp;
        }

        if (shape::order(shapeBuffer) == 'c')
            shapeBuffer[shape::shapeInfoLength(shapeBuffer) - 1] = 102;
        else
            shapeBuffer[shape::shapeInfoLength(shapeBuffer) - 1] = 99;
    }

/**
 * Tad index for linear
 * @param linearIndex
 * @param tadLength
 * @return
 */
    INLINEDEF _CUDA_HD int tadIndexForLinear(int linearIndex, int tadLength) {
        return linearIndex % tadLength;
    }

/**
 * Computes the number of tads
 * per reduce index for the
 * reduction tad.
 */
    INLINEDEF _CUDA_HD int tadsPerReduceIndex(int tadsForReduce, int tadsForOriginal) {
        return tadsForOriginal / tadsForReduce;
    }

/**
 * Maps a linear index to a reduction index
 * @param i the linear index to map
 * @param elementWiseStride the element wise stride
 * for the multiple problem
 * @param tadNum the number of tads for the shrunken problem
 * @param originalTadNum the tad number for the reduced version of the problem
 */
    INLINEDEF _CUDA_HD int reductionIndexForLinear(int i, int elementWiseStride, int numElementsPerTad,
                                          int tadNum, int originalTadNum) {
        int tad = tadIndex(i, elementWiseStride, numElementsPerTad);
        return reductionIndexForTad(tad, tadNum, originalTadNum);
    }

    INLINEDEF _CUDA_HD Nd4jLong* createScalarShapeInfo() {

        traceNew(30);

        auto shape = new Nd4jLong[1];
        shape[0] = 1;
        auto stride = new Nd4jLong[1];
        stride[0] = 1;
        auto shapeInformation2 = new ShapeInformation();
        shapeInformation2->rank = 1;
        shapeInformation2->offset = 0;
        shapeInformation2->stride = stride;
        shapeInformation2->shape = shape;
        shapeInformation2->elementWiseStride = 1;
        shapeInformation2->order = 99;
        Nd4jLong *ret = shape::toShapeBuffer(shapeInformation2);
        delete shapeInformation2;
        delete[] shape;
        delete[] stride;
        return ret;
    }

    INLINEDEF _CUDA_HD Nd4jLong* createScalarShapeInfo(Nd4jLong *ret) {
        ret[0] = 2;
        ret[1] = 1;
        ret[2] = 1;
        ret[3] = 1;
        ret[4] = 1;
        ret[5] = 0;
        ret[6] = 1;
        ret[7] = 99;

        return ret;
    }


/**
 * Returns the prod of the data
 * up to the given length
 */
    INLINEDEF _CUDA_HD Nd4jLong prodLong(const Nd4jLong *data, int length) {
        Nd4jLong prod = 1;
        for (int i = 0; i < length; i++) {
            prod *= data[i];
        }

        return prod;
    }

    INLINEDEF _CUDA_HD int rearMostLeftOverItem(Nd4jLong *data, Nd4jLong *dimension,int dimensionLength) {
        Nd4jLong *stride = shape::stride(data);
        //corner case: return the final item when its greater than the max, since its guaranteed to be left over
        //note here that strides are interpreted in reverse for tad
        //start from the front rather than the back

        int rank = shape::rank(data);


        if(shape::order(data) == 'f') {
            int dimIdx = dimensionLength - 1;
            for(int i = rank - 1; i >= 0; i--) {
                /**
                 * Needs to find an algorithm such that:
                 * looping backwards will find the highest dimension left
                 * that isn't included in the dimension index list.
                 *
                 * This can also be thought of as the last item of the first index
                 * of the difference between the full list of indices and
                 * the dimension indices.
                 *
                 * We should avoid excessive object creation by only looping backwards.
                 */
                if(dimension[dimIdx--] != i) {
                    int ret = stride[i];
                    return ret;
                }
            }
        }

        else {
            int dimIdx = dimensionLength - 1;

            for(int i = rank - 1; i >= 0; i--) {
                /**
                 * Needs to find an algorithm such that:
                 * looping backwards will find the highest dimension left
                 * that isn't included in the dimension index list.
                 *
                 * This can also be thought of as the last item of the first index
                 * of the difference between the full list of indices and
                 * the dimension indices.
                 *
                 * We should avoid excessive object creation by only looping backwards.
                 */
                if(dimension[dimIdx--] != i) {
                    int ret = stride[i];
                    return ret;
                }
            }
        }




        int ret = stride[0];
        return ret;
    }

#ifdef __CUDACC__
    __device__ INLINEDEF void sweepShapeInfoBuffer(Nd4jLong *shapeInfoBuffer, Nd4jLong *targetBuffer) {
    // we read first element, to find out length of our shapeInfoBuffer
    int rank = shapeInfoBuffer[0];
    int len = shape::shapeInfoLength(rank);
    for (int i = threadIdx.x; i < len; i += blockDim.x)
        targetBuffer[i] = shapeInfoBuffer[i];
}
#endif


    INLINEDEF _CUDA_HD Nd4jLong *shapeBufferOfNpy(cnpy::NpyArray arr) {
        return shape::shapeBufferOfNpy(arr.shape.size(),(unsigned int*) arr.shape.data(),arr.fortranOrder);
    }






//    INLINEDEF _CUDA_HD Nd4jLong *shapeBufferOfNpyBuffer(char *buffer) {
//        unsigned Nd4jLong *shape;
//        unsigned int ndims, wordSize;
//        bool fortranOrder;
//        cnpy::parseNpyHeaderStr(std::string(buffer),wordSize,shape,ndims,fortranOrder);
//        Nd4jLong * ret =  shape::shapeBufferOfNpy(ndims,shape,fortranOrder);
//        delete[] shape;
//        return ret;
//    }


    INLINEDEF _CUDA_HD Nd4jLong *shapeBufferOfNpy(int rank, unsigned int* shape,bool fortranOrder) {
        if(fortranOrder) {
            Nd4jLong *shapeBufferRet = shape::shapeBufferFortran(rank, sd::FLOAT32,(Nd4jLong *) shape);
            return shapeBufferRet;
        }
        else {
            Nd4jLong *newShape = new Nd4jLong[rank];
            for(int i = 0; i < rank; i++) {
                newShape[i] = shape[i];
            }

            Nd4jLong *shapeBufferRet = shape::shapeBuffer(rank, sd::FLOAT32, newShape);
            delete[] newShape;
            return shapeBufferRet;

        }
    }

    INLINEDEF _CUDA_HD bool strideDescendingCAscendingF(const Nd4jLong *shapeBuffer) {
        int rank = shape::rank(shapeBuffer);
        Nd4jLong *strides = shape::stride(const_cast<Nd4jLong*>(shapeBuffer));
        char order = shape::order(shapeBuffer);

        if (shape::isRowVector(shapeBuffer) && strides[0] == 1 && strides[1] == 1)
            return true;

        if (order == 'c') {
            for (int i = 1; i < rank; i++)
                if (strides[i-1] <= strides[i])
                    return false;
            return true;
        } else if (order == 'f') {
            for (int i = 1; i < rank; i++)
                if (strides[i-1] >= strides[i])
                    return false;
            return true;
        } else {
            printf("Unknown order for array!\n");
            return false;
        }
    }

    INLINEDEF _CUDA_HD bool isContiguous(const Nd4jLong* shapeInfo) {

        return (order(shapeInfo) == 'c') && (elementWiseStride(shapeInfo) > 0);
    }

//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
// copy-past from java hasDefaultStridesForShape function
INLINEDEF _CUDA_HD bool areStridesDefault(const Nd4jLong* shapeInfo) {

    const int rank = shape::rank(shapeInfo);

    if(rank == 0)
        return true;
    if(!strideDescendingCAscendingF(shapeInfo))
        return false;

    Nd4jLong defaultShapeInfo[MAX_SHAPEINFOLENGTH];
    memcpy(defaultShapeInfo, shapeInfo, shape::shapeInfoByteLength(shapeInfo));
    shape::updateStrides(defaultShapeInfo, shape::order(shapeInfo));

    bool result = true;
    for(int i = rank+1; i <= 2*rank; ++i)
        if(defaultShapeInfo[i] != shapeInfo[i]) {
            result = false;
            break;
        }

    return result;
}

// INLINEDEF _CUDA_H bool reshapeC(const int oldRank, Nd4jLong* oldShape, const int newRank, Nd4jLong* newShapeOf, bool isFOrder, Nd4jLong* target) {
//         int oldnd;
//         Nd4jLong* olddims = shape::copyOf(oldRank, shape::shapeOf(oldShape));
//         Nd4jLong* oldstrides = shape::copyOf(oldRank, shape::stride(oldShape));
//         int np, op, last_stride;
//         int oi, oj, ok, ni, nj, nk;
//         Nd4jLong* newStrides = new Nd4jLong[newRank];
//         oldnd = 0;

//         /*
//          * Remove axes with dimension 1 from the old array. They have no effect
//          * but would need special cases since their strides do not matter.
//          */
//         for (oi = 0; oi < oldRank; oi++) {
//             if (shape::shapeOf(oldShape)[oi] != 1) {
//                 olddims[oldnd] = shape::shapeOf(oldShape)[oi];
//                 oldstrides[oldnd] = shape::stride(oldShape)[oi];
//                 oldnd++;
//             }
//         }

//         np = 1;
//         for (ni = 0; ni < newRank; ni++) {
//             np *= newShapeOf[ni];
//         }
//         op = 1;
//         for (oi = 0; oi < oldnd; oi++) {
//             op *= olddims[oi];
//         }
//         if (np != op) {
//             /* different total sizes; no hope */
//             delete[] olddims;
//             delete[] oldstrides;
//             delete[] newStrides;

//             return false;
//         }

//         if (np == 0) {
//             /* the current code does not handle 0-sized arrays, so give up */
//             delete[] olddims;
//             delete[] oldstrides;
//             delete[] newStrides;

//             return false;
//         }

//         /* oi to oj and ni to nj give the axis ranges currently worked with */
//         oi = 0;
//         oj = 1;
//         ni = 0;
//         nj = 1;

//         while (ni < newRank && oi < oldnd) {
//             np = newShapeOf[ni];
//             op = olddims[oi];

//             while (np != op) {
//                 if (np < op) {
//                     /* Misses trailing 1s, these are handled later */
//                     np *= newShapeOf[nj++];
//                 } else {
//                     op *= olddims[oj++];
//                 }
//             }

//             /* Check whether the original axes can be combined */
//             for (ok = oi; ok < oj - 1; ok++) {
//                 if (isFOrder) {
//                     if (oldstrides[ok + 1] != olddims[ok] * oldstrides[ok]) {
//                         /* not contiguous enough */
//                         delete[] olddims;
//                         delete[] oldstrides;
//                         delete[] newStrides;

//                         return false;
//                     }
//                 } else {
//                     /* C order */
//                     if (oldstrides[ok] != olddims[ok + 1] * oldstrides[ok + 1]) {
//                         /* not contiguous enough */
//                         delete[] olddims;
//                         delete[] oldstrides;
//                         delete[] newStrides;

//                         return false;
//                     }
//                 }
//             }

//             /* Calculate new strides for all axes currently worked with */
//             if (isFOrder) {
//                 newStrides[ni] = oldstrides[oi];
//                 for (nk = ni + 1; nk < nj; nk++) {
//                     newStrides[nk] = newStrides[nk - 1] * newShapeOf[nk - 1];
//                 }
//             } else {
//                 /* C order */
//                 newStrides[nj - 1] = oldstrides[oj - 1];
//                 for (nk = nj - 1; nk > ni; nk--) {
//                     newStrides[nk - 1] = newStrides[nk] * newShapeOf[nk];
//                 }
//             }
//             ni = nj++;
//             oi = oj++;
//         }

//         if (ni >= 1) {
//             last_stride = newStrides[ni - 1];
//         } else {
//             last_stride = shape::elementWiseStride(oldShape);
//         }
//         if (isFOrder && ni >= 1) {
//             last_stride *= newShapeOf[ni - 1];
//         }
//         for (nk = ni; nk < newRank; nk++) {
//             newStrides[nk] = last_stride;
//         }

//         target[0] = newRank;
//         int cnt = 1;
//         for (int e = 0; e < newRank; e++)
//             target[cnt++] = newShapeOf[e];

//         for (int e = 0; e < newRank; e++)
//             target[cnt++] = newStrides[e];

//         target[shape::shapeInfoLength(newRank) - 3] = 0;
//         target[shape::shapeInfoLength(newRank) - 2] = 0;
//         target[shape::shapeInfoLength(newRank) - 1] = isFOrder ? 102 : 99;
//         sd::ArrayOptions::setDataType(target, sd::ArrayOptions::dataType(oldShape));

//         delete[] olddims;
//         delete[] oldstrides;
//         delete[] newStrides;

//         return true;
//     }

//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
// INLINEDEF _CUDA_H bool reshapeC(const int oldRank, const Nd4jLong* oldShapeInfo, const int newRank, const Nd4jLong* newShape, Nd4jLong* newShapeInfo) {

//         // PLEASE NOTE !: reshaping not-permuted (ews=1) array in f order (except insertion/elimination of unities) will definitely cause allocation of new buffer for array elements
//         // also this function takes into account identical shapes automatically, namely in that case oldShapeInfo is completely copied to newShapeInfo

//         newShapeInfo[0] = newRank;
//         memcpy(newShapeInfo + 1, newShape, newRank * sizeof(Nd4jLong));

//         Nd4jLong* newStrides       = shape::stride(newShapeInfo);
//         const Nd4jLong* oldShape   = shape::shapeOf(const_cast<Nd4jLong*>(oldShapeInfo));
//         const Nd4jLong* oldStrides = shape::stride(const_cast<Nd4jLong*>(oldShapeInfo));
//         Nd4jLong oldStart(0), oldStop(1), newStart(0), newStop(1), newDim, oldDim;

//         while (newStart < newRank && oldStart < oldRank) {

//             newDim = newShape[newStart];
//             oldDim = oldShape[oldStart];

//             while (newDim != oldDim && newDim > 0 && oldDim > 0)
//                 if (newDim < oldDim) newDim *= newShape[newStop++];
//                 else                 oldDim *= oldShape[oldStop++];

//             // ------ Check whether the original axes can be combined ------ //
//             for (int step = 1, i = oldStart; i < oldStop - 1; ++i) {
//                 if(oldShape[i] == 1)                // skip unity-dimension and its stride
//                     continue;
//                 while((i + step) < oldRank && oldShape[i + step] == 1)
//                     ++step;                         // skip following unity-dimensions and its strides if such are present
//                 if((i + step) < oldRank && oldStrides[i] != oldShape[i + step] * oldStrides[i + step])
//                     return false;                   // not contiguous enough
//             }

//             newStrides[newStop - 1] = oldStrides[oldStop - 1];
//             for (int i = newStop - 1; i > newStart; --i)
//                 newStrides[i - 1] = newStrides[i] * newShape[i];

//             newStart = newStop++;
//             oldStart = oldStop++;
//         }

//         // rest of strides should be unities (if there is remainder in strides space, that is newStart < newRank)
//         for (int i = newStart; i < newRank; ++i)
//             newStrides[i] = 1;

//         newShapeInfo[2 * newRank + 3] = shape::order(oldShapeInfo);                 // order
//         newShapeInfo[2 * newRank + 2] = shape::elementWiseStride(oldShapeInfo);     // ews
//         newShapeInfo[2 * newRank + 1] = shape::type(oldShapeInfo);                  // type

//         return true;
//     }

//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
INLINEDEF _CUDA_HD bool reshapeC(const Nd4jLong* oldShapeInfo, const char newOrder, const int newRank, const Nd4jLong* newShape, Nd4jLong* newShapeInfo) {

    // copy shape from newShape into newShapeInfo
    newShapeInfo[0] = newRank;
    memcpy(newShapeInfo + 1, newShape, newRank * sizeof(Nd4jLong));

    // copy order
    newShapeInfo[2 * newRank + 3] = newOrder;

    return shape::reshapeC(oldShapeInfo, newShapeInfo);
}

//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
INLINEDEF _CUDA_HD bool reshapeC(const Nd4jLong* oldShapeInfo, Nd4jLong* newShapeInfo) {

    // newShapeInfo contains rank, shape and order; but no strides, type and ews

    const int newRank = shape::rank(newShapeInfo);

    // if oldShapeInfo is scalar or vector with length=1
    if(shape::length(oldShapeInfo) == 1) {
        for (uint i = 0; i < newRank; ++i)
            shape::stride(newShapeInfo)[i] = 1;
        newShapeInfo[2 * newRank + 1] = shape::type(oldShapeInfo);
        *shape::ews(newShapeInfo) = 1;
        return true;
    }

    const auto oldOrder = shape::order(oldShapeInfo);
    const auto newOrder = shape::order(newShapeInfo);
    const auto oldEws   = shape::elementWiseStride(const_cast<Nd4jLong*>(oldShapeInfo));

    if(oldEws > 0 && oldOrder != newOrder)
        return false;

    // *** FIRST STAGE - exclude unity dimensions from oldShapeInfo and newShapeInfo (if such are present of course), since they don't affect on strides evaluation, however they complicate code

    // FIXME - indeed we don't need to allocate so large memory amount (4*MAX_RANK), sufficient amount is (2*oldNumOfNonUnities + 2*newNumOfNonUnities)
    Nd4jLong tempBuffer[4*MAX_RANK];
    Nd4jLong *oldShape = tempBuffer, *newShape = tempBuffer + 2*MAX_RANK, *oldStrides,  *newStrides;

    // exclude unities from oldShapeInfo
    const int oldNumOfNonUnities = shape::excludeUnitiesFromShapeInfo(oldShapeInfo, oldShape, oldStrides);
    const int newNumOfNonUnities = shape::excludeUnitiesFromShapeInfo(newShapeInfo, newShape, newStrides);

    // *** SECOND STAGE - strides evaluation

    int oldStart(0), oldStop(1), newStart(0), newStop(1), newDim, oldDim;

    while (newStart < newNumOfNonUnities && oldStart < oldNumOfNonUnities) {

        newDim = newShape[newStart];
        oldDim = oldShape[oldStart];

        while (newDim != oldDim && newDim > 0 && oldDim > 0) {

            if (newDim < oldDim)
                newDim *= newShape[newStop++];
            else
                oldDim *= oldShape[oldStop++];
        }

        // check c-contiguous of old axes range
        for(uint i = oldStart; i < oldStop - 1; ++i)    // do not check value of last stride, it doesn't matter
            if(oldStrides[i] != oldShape[i + 1] * oldStrides[i + 1])
                return false;                   // not contiguous

        // fill newStrides in c manner
        newStrides[newStop - 1] = oldStrides[oldStop - 1];  // copy last stride
        for (int i = newStop - 2; i >= newStart; --i)
            newStrides[i] = newStrides[i + 1] * newShape[i + 1];

        newStart = newStop++;
        oldStart = oldStop++;
    }

    // fill new calculated strides into newShapeInfo, take into account possible unities in shape
    for (int j = 0, i = 0; i < newRank; ++i)
        shape::stride(newShapeInfo)[i] = (shape::shapeOf(newShapeInfo)[i] == 1) ? 1 : newStrides[j++];

    // set ews
    if(oldEws == 0)
        shape::checkStridesEwsAndOrder(newShapeInfo, newOrder, newNumOfNonUnities, newShape, newStrides);  // set ews and order
    else {
        newShapeInfo[2 * newRank + 3] = oldOrder;                   // order
        *shape::ews(newShapeInfo) = oldEws;                         // ews
    }

    sd::ArrayOptions::copyDataType(newShapeInfo, oldShapeInfo); // type

    return true;
}


    INLINEDEF _CUDA_H bool canReshape(const int oldRank, Nd4jLong* oldShape, const int newRank, Nd4jLong* newShapeOf, bool isFOrder) {
        Nd4jLong oldnd;
        Nd4jLong* oldDims = shape::copyOf(oldRank, shape::shapeOf(oldShape));
        Nd4jLong* oldStrides = shape::copyOf(oldRank, shape::stride(oldShape));
        Nd4jLong np, op, last_stride;
        Nd4jLong oldStart, oldStop, ok, newStart, newStop, nk;
        auto newStrides = new Nd4jLong[newRank];
        oldnd = 0;

        /*
         * Remove axes with dimension 1 from the old array. They have no effect
         * but would need special cases since their strides do not matter.
         */
        for (oldStart = 0; oldStart < oldRank; oldStart++) {
            if (shape::shapeOf(oldShape)[oldStart] != 1) {
                oldDims[oldnd] = shape::shapeOf(oldShape)[oldStart];
                oldStrides[oldnd] = shape::stride(oldShape)[oldStart];
                oldnd++;
            }
        }

        np = 1;
        for (newStart = 0; newStart < newRank; newStart++) {
            np *= newShapeOf[newStart];
        }
        op = 1;
        for (oldStart = 0; oldStart < oldnd; oldStart++) {
            op *= oldDims[oldStart];
        }
        if (np != op) {
            /* different total sizes; no hope */
            delete[] oldDims;
            delete[] oldStrides;
            delete[] newStrides;

            return false;
        }

        if (np == 0) {
            /* the current code does not handle 0-sized arrays, so give up */
            delete[] oldDims;
            delete[] oldStrides;
            delete[] newStrides;

            return false;
        }

        /* oldStart to oldStop and newStart to newStop give the axis ranges currently worked with */
        oldStart = 0;
        oldStop = 1;
        newStart = 0;
        newStop = 1;

        while (newStart < newRank && oldStart < oldnd) {
            np = newShapeOf[newStart];
            op = oldDims[oldStart];

            while (np != op) {
                if (np < op) {
                    /* Misses trailing 1s, these are handled later */
                    np *= newShapeOf[newStop++];
                } else {
                    op *= oldDims[oldStop++];
                }
            }

            /* Check whether the original axes can be combined */
            for (ok = oldStart; ok < oldStop - 1; ok++) {
                if (isFOrder) {
                    if (oldStrides[ok + 1] != oldDims[ok] * oldStrides[ok]) {
                        /* not contiguous enough */
                        delete[] oldDims;
                        delete[] oldStrides;
                        delete[] newStrides;

                        return false;
                    }
                } else {
                    /* C order */
                    if (oldStrides[ok] != oldDims[ok + 1] * oldStrides[ok + 1]) {
                        /* not contiguous enough */
                        delete[] oldDims;
                        delete[] oldStrides;
                        delete[] newStrides;

                        return false;
                    }
                }
            }

            /* Calculate new strides for all axes currently worked with */
            if (isFOrder) {
                newStrides[newStart] = oldStrides[oldStart];
                for (nk = newStart + 1; nk < newStop; nk++) {
                    newStrides[nk] = newStrides[nk - 1] * newShapeOf[nk - 1];
                }
            } else {
                /* C order */
                newStrides[newStop - 1] = oldStrides[oldStop - 1];
                for (nk = newStop - 1; nk > newStart; nk--) {
                    newStrides[nk - 1] = newStrides[nk] * newShapeOf[nk];
                }
            }
            newStart = newStop++;
            oldStart = oldStop++;
        }

        delete[] oldDims;
        delete[] oldStrides;
        delete[] newStrides;

        return true;
    }

    // this function checks the consistence of dimensions with array rank (negative dimensions, too large dimensions, too big number of dimensions)
    // also it sorts input array of dimensions, this operation is also necessary for creating TAD object
    INLINEDEF _CUDA_H void checkDimensions(const int rank, std::vector<int>& dimensions) {

        int dimSize = dimensions.size();
        if(dimSize == 0)
            throw std::runtime_error("shape::checkDimensions method: array of dimensions is empty!");
        // check presence of negative dimensions and if they are present transform them to positive ones -dim -> rank - |dim|
        for(auto& dim : dimensions)
            if(dim < 0)
                dim += rank;
        // sort input array of dimensions, this operation is also necessary for creating TAD object in external methods
        if (dimSize > 1) {
            std::sort(dimensions.begin(), dimensions.end());
            // remove duplicates if they are present
            dimensions.erase(std::unique(dimensions.begin(), dimensions.end()), dimensions.end());
        }
        // check whether number of dimensions is to big (>rank)
        dimSize = dimensions.size();
        if(dimSize > rank)
            throw std::runtime_error("shape::checkDimensions method: number of input dimensions is too big ( > rank of array)!");
        // check if min dimension is still negative and whether max dimension is bigger then rank-1
        if(dimensions[0] < 0 || dimensions.back() > (rank-1))
            throw std::runtime_error("shape::checkDimensions method: the negative dimension is still present in input array after transform or the too big dimension is present ( > rank of array) !");
    }


// max array is outer for min array, min array is sub-array of max array
// function calculates the coordinates of min array (and saves them into minIdxs) given coordinates of max array (already stored in maxIdxs)
INLINEDEF _CUDA_HD void maxIndToMinInd(int* maxIdxs, int* minIdxs, const Nd4jLong* maxShapeInfo, const Nd4jLong* minShapeInfo, const int* dimsToExclude, int dimsLen) {

    const auto maxRank = shape::rank(maxShapeInfo);
    const auto minRank = shape::rank(minShapeInfo);

    // if(minRank >= maxRank)
    //     throw std::runtime_error("shape::maxIndToMinInd method: rank of min array should be smaller then rank of max array!");

    if(dimsLen == -1)
        dimsLen = maxRank - minRank;     // if size is not given (= -1) then it is equal to ranks difference

    if(maxRank == minRank) {

        if(dimsToExclude == nullptr) {              // --> means dimsToExclude == {0,1,2,...,dimsLen-1}

            for (int i = 0; i < maxRank; ++i) {

                if(i < dimsLen)
                    minIdxs[i] = maxIdxs[i];
                else {
                    if(maxIdxs[i] > minShapeInfo[i + 1])
                        minIdxs[i] = maxIdxs[i] % minShapeInfo[i + 1];
                    else if(maxIdxs[i] == minShapeInfo[i + 1])
                        minIdxs[i] = 0;
                    else
                        minIdxs[i] = maxIdxs[i];
                }
            }
        }
        else {

            for (int i = 0, dim = 0; i < maxRank; ++i) {

                if(dim < dimsLen && dimsToExclude[dim] == i) {
                    minIdxs[i] = maxIdxs[i];
                    ++dim;
                    continue;
                }

                if(maxIdxs[i] > minShapeInfo[i + 1])
                    minIdxs[i] = maxIdxs[i] % minShapeInfo[i + 1];
                else if(maxIdxs[i] == minShapeInfo[i + 1])
                    minIdxs[i] = 0;
                else
                    minIdxs[i] = maxIdxs[i];
            }
        }
    }
    else {

        if(dimsToExclude == nullptr) {              // --> means dimsToExclude == {0,1,2,...,dimsLen-1}

            for (int i = 0; i < minRank; ++i) {

                if(maxIdxs[i + dimsLen] > minShapeInfo[i + 1])
                    minIdxs[i] = maxIdxs[i + dimsLen] % minShapeInfo[i + 1];
                else if(maxIdxs[i + dimsLen] == minShapeInfo[i + 1])
                    minIdxs[i] = 0;
                else
                    minIdxs[i] = maxIdxs[i + dimsLen];
            }
        }
        else {

            for (int minI = 0, maxI = 0, dim = 0; maxI < maxRank; ++maxI) {

                if(dim < dimsLen && dimsToExclude[dim] == maxI) {
                    ++dim;
                    continue;
                }

                if(maxIdxs[maxI] == minShapeInfo[minI + 1])
                    minIdxs[minI] = 0;
                else if(maxIdxs[maxI] > minShapeInfo[minI + 1])
                    minIdxs[minI] = maxIdxs[maxI] % minShapeInfo[minI + 1];
                else
                    minIdxs[minI] = maxIdxs[maxI];
                ++minI;
            }
        }
    }
}

    //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
    INLINEDEF _CUDA_HD Nd4jLong subArrayIndex(const Nd4jLong maxIdx, const Nd4jLong* maxShapeInfo, const Nd4jLong* minShapeInfo, const int* dimsToExclude, const int dimsLen) {

        int maxIdxs[MAX_RANK];
        shape::index2coords(const_cast<Nd4jLong&>(maxIdx), maxShapeInfo, maxIdxs);

        int minIdxs[MAX_RANK];
        maxIndToMinInd(maxIdxs, minIdxs, maxShapeInfo, minShapeInfo, dimsToExclude, dimsLen);

        return shape::coords2index(minShapeInfo, minIdxs);
    }

    //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
    INLINEDEF _CUDA_HD Nd4jLong subArrayOffset(const Nd4jLong maxIdx, const Nd4jLong* maxShapeInfo, const Nd4jLong* minShapeInfo, const int* dimsToExclude, const int dimsLen) {

        int maxIdxs[MAX_RANK];
        shape::index2coords(const_cast<Nd4jLong&>(maxIdx), maxShapeInfo, maxIdxs);

        int minIdxs[MAX_RANK];
        maxIndToMinInd(maxIdxs, minIdxs, maxShapeInfo, minShapeInfo, dimsToExclude, dimsLen);

        return getOffset(minShapeInfo, minIdxs);
    }

    //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
    INLINEDEF _CUDA_HD int outerArrayOffsets(Nd4jLong* maxOffsets, const Nd4jLong minIdx, const Nd4jLong* maxShapeInfo, const Nd4jLong* minShapeInfo, int* memBuff, const int* dimsToExclude) {

        const auto rankMin = shape::rank(minShapeInfo);
        const auto rankMax = shape::rank(maxShapeInfo);

        // if(rankMin >= rankMax)
        //     throw std::runtime_error("shape::subArrayIndex method: rank of min array should be smaller then rank of max array!");

        const auto diff = rankMax - rankMin;     // the size of dimsToExclude is equal to diff

        int* indices   = memBuff;
        int* increment = memBuff + rankMax;

        int N, minI, maxI;

        // calculate min per-dim-indices which corresponds to absolute minIdx index
        shape::index2coords(minIdx, minShapeInfo, indices);

        // transform storage indices to contain per-dim max indices, purpose - memory saving
        // fill increment array as well
        if(dimsToExclude == nullptr) {  // means dimsToExclude == {0,1,2,...,diff-1}
            for(minI = rankMin - 1, maxI = rankMax-1; maxI >= diff; --maxI, --minI) {
                increment[maxI] = (maxShapeInfo[maxI+1] == minShapeInfo[minI+1]) ? 0 : minShapeInfo[minI+1];
                indices[maxI] = indices[minI];
            }
            for(maxI = 0; maxI < diff; ++maxI) {
                increment[maxI] = 1;
                indices[maxI] = 0;
            }
        }
        else {
            for(N = diff-1, minI = rankMin - 1, maxI = rankMax - 1; maxI >= 0; --maxI) {
                if(N >= 0 && dimsToExclude[N] == maxI) {
                    increment[maxI] = 1;
                    indices[maxI] = 0;
                    --N;
                }
                else {
                    increment[maxI] = (maxShapeInfo[maxI+1] == minShapeInfo[minI+1]) ? 0 : minShapeInfo[minI+1];
                    indices[maxI] = indices[minI--];
                }
            }
        }

        maxI = rankMax-1;
        N = 0;
        int step;
        maxOffsets[N++] = shape::getOffset(maxShapeInfo, indices);

        // nested loops - producing of absolute indices for max array
        while(maxI >= 0) {

            if(increment[maxI] != 0) {

                indices[maxI] += increment[maxI];
                if(indices[maxI] >= maxShapeInfo[maxI+1]) {
                    indices[maxI] %= increment[maxI]; // restore initial value of indices[maxI]
                    step = -1;
                }
                else {
                    maxOffsets[N++] = shape::getOffset(maxShapeInfo, indices);
                    step =  rankMax - 1 - maxI;
                }
            }
            else if(maxI == rankMax - 1)
                step = -1;

            maxI += step;
        }
        return N;
    }

    //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
    INLINEDEF _CUDA_HD int outerArrayIndexes(int* maxIdxs, const Nd4jLong minIdx, const Nd4jLong* maxShapeInfo, const Nd4jLong* minShapeInfo, const int* dimsToExclude) {

        const auto rankMin = shape::rank(minShapeInfo);
        const auto rankMax = shape::rank(maxShapeInfo);

        // if(rankMin >= rankMax)
        //     throw std::runtime_error("shape::subArrayIndex method: rank of min array should be smaller then rank of max array!");
        // if(rankMax > MAX_RANK/2)
        //     throw std::runtime_error("shape::subArrayIndex method: rank of max array should be <= MAX_RANK/2 !");

        const auto diff    = rankMax - rankMin;     // the size of dimsToExclude is equal to diff

        int indices[MAX_RANK], increment[MAX_RANK];

        int N, minI, maxI;

        // calculate min per-dim-indices which corresponds to absolute minIdx index
        shape::index2coords(minIdx, minShapeInfo, indices);

        // transform storage indices to contain per-dim max indices, purpose - memory saving
        // fill increment array as well
        if(dimsToExclude == nullptr) {  // means dimsToExclude == {0,1,2,...,diff-1}
            for(minI = rankMin - 1, maxI = rankMax-1; maxI >= diff; --maxI, --minI) {
                increment[maxI] = (maxShapeInfo[maxI+1] == minShapeInfo[minI+1]) ? 0 : minShapeInfo[minI+1];
                indices[maxI] = indices[minI];
            }
            for(maxI = 0; maxI < diff; ++maxI) {
                increment[maxI] = 1;
                indices[maxI] = 0;
            }
        }
        else {
            for(N = diff-1, minI = rankMin - 1, maxI = rankMax - 1; maxI >= 0; --maxI) {
                if(N >= 0 && dimsToExclude[N] == maxI) {
                    increment[maxI] = 1;
                    indices[maxI] = 0;
                    --N;
                }
                else {
                    increment[maxI] = (maxShapeInfo[maxI+1] == minShapeInfo[minI+1]) ? 0 : minShapeInfo[minI+1];
                    indices[maxI] = indices[minI--];
                }
            }
        }

        maxI = rankMax-1;
        N = 0;
        int step;
        maxIdxs[N++] = shape::coords2index(maxShapeInfo, indices);

        // nested loops - producing of absolute indices for max array
        while(maxI >= 0) {

            if(increment[maxI] != 0) {

                indices[maxI] += increment[maxI];
                if(indices[maxI] >= maxShapeInfo[maxI+1]) {
                    indices[maxI] %= increment[maxI]; // restore initial value of indices[maxI]
                    step = -1;
                }
                else {
                    maxIdxs[N++] = shape::coords2index(maxShapeInfo, indices);
                    step =  rankMax - 1 - maxI;
                }
            }
            else if(maxI == rankMax - 1)
                step = -1;

            maxI += step;
        }
        return N;
    }

    INLINEDEF _CUDA_HD void shapeOldScalar(sd::DataType dataType, Nd4jLong* const buffer, const char order) {

        buffer[0] = 2;
        buffer[1] = 1;
        buffer[2] = 1;
        buffer[3] = 1;
        buffer[4] = 1;
        buffer[6] = 1;
        buffer[7] = (int)order;

        sd::ArrayOptions::setDataType(buffer, dataType);
    }

    template <typename T1, typename T2>
    INLINEDEF _CUDA_H void convertT(T1 *from, T2 *to, Nd4jLong length) {
        for (Nd4jLong e = 0; e < length; e++)
                to[e] = (T2) from[e];
    };

//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
INLINEDEF void calcOffsets(const Nd4jLong* shapeInfo, Nd4jLong* offsets, const char order) {

    // firstly consider simple case when ews > 0
    const Nd4jLong ews = shape::elementWiseStride(shapeInfo);

    if(ews > 0) {

        // set offset for first sub-array, it is equal to zero always
        offsets[0] = 0;

        Nd4jLong e = 0;
        if(order != shape::order(shapeInfo))
            for(int i = 1; i <= shape::rank(shapeInfo); ++i)
                if(shapeInfo[i] != 1)
                    ++e;         //check whether input is CommonVector

        if(order == shape::order(shapeInfo) || e == 1) {    // e==1 means common vector
            e = 1;
            Nd4jLong len = shape::length(shapeInfo);
            while(e < len) {
                offsets[e] = offsets[e - 1] + ews;
                e++;
            }
            return;
        }
    }

    shape::calcOffsets(shape::rank(shapeInfo), shape::shapeOf(const_cast<Nd4jLong*>(shapeInfo)), shape::stride(const_cast<Nd4jLong*>(shapeInfo)), offsets, order);
}

//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
INLINEDEF void calcOffsets(const int rank, const Nd4jLong* shape, const Nd4jLong* strides, Nd4jLong* offsets, const char order) {

    // if(false) {                     // tests showed that this code did calculation notably slower even for big N
    //     Nd4jLong indexes[MAX_RANK];
    //     PRAGMA_OMP_PARALLEL_FOR_ARGS(private(indexes))
    //     for (Nd4jLong i = 0; i < N; ++i) {
    //         shape::index2coords(rank, shape, i, indexes);
    //         subArrOffsets[i] = 0;
    //         for (int j = 0; j < rank; ++j)
    //             if(shape[j] != 1)
    //                 subArrOffsets[i] += indexes[j] * strides[j];
    //     }
    //     return;
    // }

    // set offset for first sub-array, it is equal to zero always
    offsets[0] = 0;

    Nd4jLong * idx          = new Nd4jLong[rank];
    Nd4jLong* offsetPerDim = new Nd4jLong[rank];
    memset(idx, 0, sizeof(Nd4jLong) * rank);

    PRAGMA_OMP_SIMD
    for (int k = 0; k < rank; ++k)
        offsetPerDim[k] = (shape[k] - 1) * strides[k];

    Nd4jLong init = 0, i = 1;
    // nested loops - calculation of sub-array offsets
    if(order == 'c') {

        Nd4jLong rankMinusOne = rank - 1, j = rankMinusOne;

        while(j >= 0) {

            if(shape[j] == 1) { --j; continue; } // ignore dimensions equal to unity

            if(j == rankMinusOne) {              // last dimension
                for(int l = 1; l < shape[j]; ++l) {
                    offsets[i] = offsets[i - 1] + strides[j];
                    i++;
                }
                --j;
            }
            else if(idx[j] < shape[j] - 1) {
                init += strides[j];
                offsets[i++] = init;
                ++idx[j];
                j = rankMinusOne;
            }
            else {
                init -= offsetPerDim[j];
                idx[j--] = 0;
            }
        }
    }
    else {

        Nd4jLong j = 0;

        while(j < rank) {

            if(shape[j] == 1) { ++j; continue; } // ignore dimensions equal to unity

            if(j == 0) {              // last dimension
                for(int l = 1; l < shape[j]; ++l) {
                    offsets[i] = offsets[i - 1] + strides[j];
                    i++;
                }
                ++j;
            }
            else if(idx[j] < shape[j] - 1) {
                init += strides[j];
                offsets[i++] = init;
                ++idx[j];
                j = 0;
            }
            else {
                init -= offsetPerDim[j];
                idx[j++] = 0;
            }
        }
    }

    delete []idx;
    delete []offsetPerDim;
}

//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
INLINEDEF void _CUDA_HD checkStridesEwsAndOrder(Nd4jLong* shapeInfo) {

    // FIXME - indeed we don't need to allocate so large memory amount (2*MAX_RANK), sufficient amount is (2*oldNumOfNonUnities + 2*newNumOfNonUnities)
    Nd4jLong tempBuffer[2*MAX_RANK];
    Nd4jLong *shape = tempBuffer, *strides;

    // exclude unities from shapeInfo
    const int numOfNonUnities = shape::excludeUnitiesFromShapeInfo(shapeInfo, shape, strides);

    shape::checkStridesEwsAndOrder(shapeInfo, shape::order(shapeInfo), numOfNonUnities, shape, strides);
}

//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
INLINEDEF void _CUDA_HD checkStridesEwsAndOrder(Nd4jLong* shapeInfo, const char proposedOrder, const int numOfNonUnities, const Nd4jLong* shapeNoUnities, const Nd4jLong* stridesNoUnities) {

    const int rank = shape::rank(shapeInfo);

    if(shape::length(shapeInfo) == 1) {
        *shape::ews(shapeInfo) = 1;
        shapeInfo[rank * 2 + 3] = (int)proposedOrder;
        return;
    }

    if(numOfNonUnities == 1) {      // case of common vector
        *shape::ews(shapeInfo) = *stridesNoUnities;
        shapeInfo[rank * 2 + 3] = (int)proposedOrder;
        return;
    }

    bool contiguous = true;

    //*** check whether strides are in c contiguous order ***//
    for (uint i = 0; i < numOfNonUnities - 1; ++i) {
        if(stridesNoUnities[i] != shapeNoUnities[i + 1] * stridesNoUnities[i + 1]) {
            contiguous = false;
            break;
        }
    }

    if(contiguous) {

        *shape::ews(shapeInfo) = stridesNoUnities[numOfNonUnities - 1];
        shapeInfo[rank * 2 + 3] = 99;
        return;
    }

    contiguous = true;

    //*** check whether strides are in f contiguous order ***//
    for (uint i = 1; i < numOfNonUnities; ++i) {
        if(stridesNoUnities[i] != shapeNoUnities[i - 1] * stridesNoUnities[i - 1]) {
            contiguous = false;
            break;
        }
    }

    if(contiguous) {

        *shape::ews(shapeInfo) = stridesNoUnities[0];
        shapeInfo[rank * 2 + 3] = 102;
        return;
    }

    *shape::ews(shapeInfo) = 0;
    shapeInfo[rank * 2 + 3] = (int)proposedOrder;
}

//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
INLINEDEF _CUDA_HD void calcSubArrsShapeInfoAndOffsets(const Nd4jLong* wholeShapeInfo, const Nd4jLong numOfSubArrs, const int dimsSize, const int* dimsToExclude, Nd4jLong* subArrShapeInfo, Nd4jLong* subArrOffsets, bool keepUnitiesInShape) {

    const int rank = shape::rank(wholeShapeInfo);

    if(dimsSize == rank || dimsSize == 0) {    // means there is one sub-array and it coincides with whole array, return copy of wholeShapeInfo and one zero offset in this case
        memcpy(subArrShapeInfo, wholeShapeInfo, shape::shapeInfoLength(rank) * sizeof(Nd4jLong));
        *subArrOffsets = 0;
        return;
    }

    const int subArrRank = keepUnitiesInShape ? rank : rank - dimsSize;

    subArrShapeInfo[0] = subArrRank;                                    // rank
    sd::ArrayOptions::copyDataType(subArrShapeInfo, wholeShapeInfo);    // type
    subArrShapeInfo[2 * subArrRank + 3] = shape::order(wholeShapeInfo); // order

    Nd4jLong* shape   = new Nd4jLong[dimsSize];
    Nd4jLong* strides = new Nd4jLong[dimsSize];

    for(int k = subArrRank - 1, j = dimsSize - 1, i = rank - 1; i >= 0; --i) {

        if(j >= 0 && i == dimsToExclude[j]) {

            strides[j] = shape::stride(wholeShapeInfo)[i];
            shape[j--] = shape::shapeOf(wholeShapeInfo)[i];

            if(keepUnitiesInShape) {
                shape::shapeOf(subArrShapeInfo)[k]  = 1;
                shape::stride(subArrShapeInfo)[k--] = shape::stride(wholeShapeInfo)[i];
            }
        }
        else {
            shape::shapeOf(subArrShapeInfo)[k]  = shape::shapeOf(wholeShapeInfo)[i];
            shape::stride(subArrShapeInfo)[k--] = shape::stride(wholeShapeInfo)[i];
        }

    }

    // calculation of sub-array offsets (subArrOffsets)
    shape::calcOffsets(dimsSize, shape, strides, subArrOffsets);

    // evaluate ews
    shape::checkStridesEwsAndOrder(subArrShapeInfo);

    delete []strides;
    delete []shape;
}

//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
INLINEDEF void calcSubArrShapeInfoAndOffset(const Nd4jLong* idx, const Nd4jLong* maxShapeInfo, Nd4jLong* minShapeInfo, Nd4jLong& minOffset, const bool keepUnitiesInShape, const bool isStrided, const int numOfUntiesInMinShape) {

    const uint maxRank = shape::rank(maxShapeInfo);
    minOffset = 0;
    uint first, last, stride, n(isStrided ? 3 : 2);

    minShapeInfo[0] = keepUnitiesInShape ? maxRank : maxRank - numOfUntiesInMinShape;

    for (uint step = 0, j = 0, i = 0; i < maxRank; ++i, step += n) {

        if (idx[step] == idx[step + 1]) {    // means whole dimension
            shape::shapeOf(minShapeInfo)[j]  = shape::shapeOf(maxShapeInfo)[i];
            shape::stride(minShapeInfo)[j++] = shape::stride(maxShapeInfo)[i];
        }
        else {

            first  = idx[step]     >= 0 ? idx[step]     : idx[step]     + shape::sizeAt(maxShapeInfo, i) + 1;
            last   = idx[step + 1] >= 0 ? idx[step + 1] : idx[step + 1] + shape::sizeAt(maxShapeInfo, i) + 1;

            if(last < first)
                throw("shape::calcSubArrShapeInfoAndOffset: negative range in input indexes is found!");

            if(isStrided) {
                stride = idx[step + 2];
                last /*resulting sub-array axis*/ = (last - first + stride - 1) / stride;       // ceil (last - first) / stride;
            }
            else {
                stride = 1;
                last /*resulting sub-array axis*/ = last - first;
            }

            minOffset += first * shape::stride(maxShapeInfo)[i];

            if(!keepUnitiesInShape && last == 1)
                continue;

            shape::shapeOf(minShapeInfo)[j]  = last;
            shape::stride(minShapeInfo)[j++] = last == 1 ? shape::stride(maxShapeInfo)[i] : shape::stride(maxShapeInfo)[i] * stride;
        }
    }

    minShapeInfo[2 * shape::rank(minShapeInfo) + 3] = shape::order(maxShapeInfo);   // order
    sd::ArrayOptions::copyDataType(minShapeInfo, maxShapeInfo);                     // type

    shape::checkStridesEwsAndOrder(minShapeInfo);
}

//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
INLINEDEF void _CUDA_HD index2coords(Nd4jLong index, const Nd4jLong *shapeInfo, Nd4jLong *coords) {

    for(uint i = shapeInfo[0]; i > 1; --i) {
        coords[i - 1] = index % shapeInfo[i];
        index /= shapeInfo[i];
    }
    coords[0] = index;      // last iteration
}

//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
INLINEDEF void _CUDA_HD index2coords(Nd4jLong index, const Nd4jLong *shapeInfo, int *coords) {

    for(uint i = shapeInfo[0]; i > 1; --i) {
        coords[i - 1] = static_cast<int>(index) % static_cast<int>(shapeInfo[i]);
        index /= static_cast<int>(shapeInfo[i]);
    }
    coords[0] = static_cast<int>(index);      // last iteration
}

//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
INLINEDEF void _CUDA_HD index2coords(Nd4jLong index, const Nd4jLong *shapeInfo, uint *coords) {

    for(uint i = shapeInfo[0]; i > 1; --i) {
        coords[i - 1] = static_cast<uint>(index) % static_cast<uint>(shapeInfo[i]);
        index /= static_cast<uint>(shapeInfo[i]);
    }
    coords[0] = static_cast<uint>(index);      // last iteration
}

//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
INLINEDEF void _CUDA_HD index2coords(Nd4jLong index, const int rank, const Nd4jLong *shape, Nd4jLong *coords) {

    for(uint i = rank - 1; i > 0; --i) {
        coords[i] = index % shape[i];
        index /= shape[i];
    }
    coords[0] = index;      // last iteration
}

//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
INLINEDEF void _CUDA_HD index2coords(Nd4jLong index, const int rank, const Nd4jLong *shape, int *coords) {

    for(uint i = rank - 1; i > 0; --i) {
        coords[i] = index % shape[i];
        index /= shape[i];
    }
    coords[0] = index;      // last iteration
}

//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
INLINEDEF _CUDA_HD void index2coords(Nd4jLong index, const Nd4jLong *shapeInfo, int *coords, const int dimsSize, const int* tadDims) {

    for(uint i = dimsSize - 1; i > 0; --i) {
        coords[tadDims[i]] = index % shapeInfo[1 + tadDims[i]];
        index /= shapeInfo[1 + tadDims[i]];
    }
    coords[tadDims[0]] = index;      // last iteration
}

//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
INLINEDEF _CUDA_HD void index2coordsCPU(const Nd4jLong& startIndex, const Nd4jLong& index, const Nd4jLong *shapeInfo, Nd4jLong *coords) {

    if(startIndex == index) {
        shape::index2coords(index, shapeInfo, coords);
    }
    else {
        int axis = shapeInfo[0] - 1;
        while(coords[axis] == shape::sizeAt(shapeInfo, axis) - 1)
            coords[axis--] = 0;
        ++coords[axis];
    }
}

//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
INLINEDEF _CUDA_HD void index2coordsCPU(const Nd4jLong& startIndex, const Nd4jLong& index, const Nd4jLong *shapeInfo, int *coords) {

    if(startIndex == index) {
        shape::index2coords(index, shapeInfo, coords);
    }
    else {
        int axis = shapeInfo[0] - 1;
        while(coords[axis] == shape::sizeAt(shapeInfo, axis) - 1)
            coords[axis--] = 0;
        ++coords[axis];
    }
}

//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
// INLINEDEF _CUDA_HD void calcOffsets(const Nd4jLong *xShapeInfo, Nd4jLong*& xOffsets, const Nd4jLong *yShapeInfo, Nd4jLong*& yOffsets, const Nd4jLong* zShapeInfo, Nd4jLong*& zOffsets, const char order) {

//     // we assume all array have same length
//     const Nd4jLong len = shape::length(xShapeInfo);

//     const Nd4jLong xEws = shape::elementWiseStride(xShapeInfo);
//     const Nd4jLong yEws = shape::elementWiseStride(yShapeInfo);
//     const Nd4jLong zEws = shape::elementWiseStride(zShapeInfo);

//     const char xOrder = shape::order(xShapeInfo);
//     const char yOrder = shape::order(yShapeInfo);
//     const char zOrder = shape::order(zShapeInfo);

//     const bool shapesSame = shape::shapeEquals(xShapeInfo, yShapeInfo, zShapeInfo);

//     if (xEws == 1 && yEws == 1 && zEws == 1 && xOrder == yOrder && xOrder == zOrder && (xOrder == 'c' || shapesSame)) {
//         xOffsets = yOffsets = zOffsets = nullptr;
//     }
//     else if(xEws == 1 && yEws == 1 && xOrder == yOrder && (xOrder == 'c' || shape::shapeEquals(xShapeInfo, yShapeInfo))) {
//         xOffsets = yOffsets = nullptr;
//         zOffsets = new Nd4jLong[len];
//         shape::calcOffsets(zShapeInfo, zOffsets, xOrder);
//     }
//     else if(xEws == 1 && zEws == 1 && xOrder == zOrder && (xOrder == 'c' || shape::shapeEquals(xShapeInfo, zShapeInfo))) {
//         xOffsets = zOffsets = nullptr;
//         yOffsets = new Nd4jLong[len];
//         shape::calcOffsets(yShapeInfo, yOffsets, xOrder);
//     }
//     else if(yEws == 1 && zEws == 1 && yOrder == zOrder && (yOrder == 'c' || shape::shapeEquals(yShapeInfo, zShapeInfo))) {
//         yOffsets = zOffsets = nullptr;
//         xOffsets = new Nd4jLong[len];
//         shape::calcOffsets(xShapeInfo, xOffsets, yOrder);
//     }
//     else if(xEws == 1) {
//         xOffsets = nullptr;
//         PRAGMA_OMP_PARALLEL_SECTIONS
//         {
//             PRAGMA_OMP_SECTION
//             {
//                 yOffsets = new Nd4jLong[len];
//                 shape::calcOffsets(yShapeInfo, yOffsets, xOrder);
//             }
//             PRAGMA_OMP_SECTION
//             {
//                 zOffsets = new Nd4jLong[len];
//                 shape::calcOffsets(zShapeInfo, zOffsets, xOrder);
//             }
//         }
//     }
//     else if(yEws == 1) {
//         yOffsets = nullptr;
//         PRAGMA_OMP_PARALLEL_SECTIONS
//         {
//             PRAGMA_OMP_SECTION
//             {
//                 xOffsets = new Nd4jLong[len];
//                 shape::calcOffsets(xShapeInfo, xOffsets, yOrder);
//             }
//             PRAGMA_OMP_SECTION
//             {
//                 zOffsets = new Nd4jLong[len];
//                 shape::calcOffsets(zShapeInfo, zOffsets, yOrder);
//             }
//         }
//     }
//     else if(zEws == 1) {
//         zOffsets = nullptr;
//         PRAGMA_OMP_PARALLEL_SECTIONS
//         {
//             PRAGMA_OMP_SECTION
//             {
//                 xOffsets = new Nd4jLong[len];
//                 shape::calcOffsets(xShapeInfo, xOffsets, zOrder);
//             }
//             PRAGMA_OMP_SECTION
//             {
//                 yOffsets = new Nd4jLong[len];
//                 shape::calcOffsets(yShapeInfo, yOffsets, zOrder);
//             }
//         }
//     }
//     else if(shape::haveSameShapeAndStrides(xShapeInfo, yShapeInfo, zShapeInfo)) {
//         xOffsets = new Nd4jLong[len];
//         shape::calcOffsets(xShapeInfo, xOffsets);
//         yOffsets = zOffsets = xOffsets;
//     }
//     else if(shape::haveSameShapeAndStrides(xShapeInfo, yShapeInfo)) {
//         PRAGMA_OMP_PARALLEL_SECTIONS
//         {
//             PRAGMA_OMP_SECTION
//             {
//                 xOffsets = new Nd4jLong[len];
//                 shape::calcOffsets(xShapeInfo, xOffsets);
//             }
//             PRAGMA_OMP_SECTION
//             {
//                 zOffsets = new Nd4jLong[len];
//                 shape::calcOffsets(zShapeInfo, zOffsets);
//             }
//         }
//         yOffsets = xOffsets;
//     }
//     else if(shape::haveSameShapeAndStrides(xShapeInfo, zShapeInfo)) {
//         PRAGMA_OMP_PARALLEL_SECTIONS
//         {
//             PRAGMA_OMP_SECTION
//             {
//                 xOffsets = new Nd4jLong[len];
//                 shape::calcOffsets(xShapeInfo, xOffsets);
//             }
//             PRAGMA_OMP_SECTION
//             {
//                 yOffsets = new Nd4jLong[len];
//                 shape::calcOffsets(yShapeInfo, yOffsets);
//             }
//         }
//         zOffsets = xOffsets;
//     }
//     else {
//         PRAGMA_OMP_PARALLEL_SECTIONS
//         {
//             PRAGMA_OMP_SECTION
//             {
//                 xOffsets = new Nd4jLong[len];
//                 shape::calcOffsets(xShapeInfo, xOffsets);
//             }
//             PRAGMA_OMP_SECTION
//             {
//                 yOffsets = new Nd4jLong[len];
//                 shape::calcOffsets(yShapeInfo, yOffsets);
//             }
//             PRAGMA_OMP_SECTION
//             {
//                 zOffsets = new Nd4jLong[len];
//                 shape::calcOffsets(zShapeInfo, zOffsets);
//             }
//         }
//     }
// }

//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
// INLINEDEF _CUDA_HD void calcOffsets(const Nd4jLong *xShapeInfo, Nd4jLong*& xOffsets, const Nd4jLong *yShapeInfo, Nd4jLong*& yOffsets, const char order) {

//     // we assume all array have same length
//     const Nd4jLong len = shape::length(xShapeInfo);

//     const Nd4jLong xEws = shape::elementWiseStride(xShapeInfo);
//     const Nd4jLong yEws = shape::elementWiseStride(yShapeInfo);

//     const char xOrder = shape::order(xShapeInfo);
//     const char yOrder = shape::order(yShapeInfo);

//     const bool shapesSame = shape::shapeEquals(xShapeInfo, yShapeInfo);

//     if (xEws == 1 && yEws == 1 && xOrder == yOrder && (xOrder == 'c' || shapesSame)) {
//         xOffsets = yOffsets = nullptr;
//     }
//     else if(xEws == 1) {
//         xOffsets = nullptr;
//         yOffsets = new Nd4jLong[len];
//         shape::calcOffsets(yShapeInfo, yOffsets, xOrder);
//     }
//     else if(yEws == 1) {
//         yOffsets = nullptr;
//         xOffsets = new Nd4jLong[len];
//         shape::calcOffsets(xShapeInfo, xOffsets, yOrder);
//     }
//     else if(shape::haveSameShapeAndStrides(xShapeInfo, yShapeInfo)) {
//         xOffsets = new Nd4jLong[len];
//         shape::calcOffsets(xShapeInfo, xOffsets);
//         yOffsets = xOffsets;
//     }
//     else {
//         PRAGMA_OMP_PARALLEL_SECTIONS
//         {
//             PRAGMA_OMP_SECTION
//             {
//                 xOffsets = new Nd4jLong[len];
//                 shape::calcOffsets(xShapeInfo, xOffsets);
//             }
//             PRAGMA_OMP_SECTION
//             {
//                 yOffsets = new Nd4jLong[len];
//                 shape::calcOffsets(yShapeInfo, yOffsets);
//             }
//         }
//     }
// }

//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
INLINEDEF _CUDA_HD int excludeUnitiesFromShapeInfo(const Nd4jLong* inShapeInfo, Nd4jLong*& shapeNoUnities, Nd4jLong*& stridesNoUnities) {

    const int rank = shape::rank(inShapeInfo);
    const int numOfNonUnities = shape::numOfNonUnitDims(rank, shape::shapeOf(inShapeInfo));

    if(numOfNonUnities == rank) { // no unities in shape, no copy procedure
        shapeNoUnities   = const_cast<Nd4jLong*>(inShapeInfo) + 1;
        stridesNoUnities = const_cast<Nd4jLong*>(inShapeInfo) + 1 + rank;
        return numOfNonUnities;
    }

    for(uint j = 0, i = 0; i < rank; ++i) {
        if(shape::shapeOf(inShapeInfo)[i] != 1) {
            shapeNoUnities[j]                     = shape::shapeOf(inShapeInfo)[i];
            shapeNoUnities[numOfNonUnities + j++] = shape::stride(inShapeInfo)[i];
        }
    }

    stridesNoUnities = shapeNoUnities + numOfNonUnities;

    return numOfNonUnities;
}

//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
INLINEDEF _CUDA_HD void excludeUnitiesFromShapeInfo(const Nd4jLong* inShapeInfo, const int dimsSize, const int* dimsToExclude, Nd4jLong* outShapeInfo) {

    outShapeInfo[0] = inShapeInfo[0] - dimsSize;

    for(uint j = 0, k = 0, i = 0; i < inShapeInfo[0]; ++i) {
        if(j < dimsSize && i == dimsToExclude[j]) {
            ++j;
            continue;
        }

        shape::shapeOf(outShapeInfo)[k]  = shape::shapeOf(inShapeInfo)[i];
        shape::stride(outShapeInfo)[k++] = shape::stride(inShapeInfo)[i];
    }

    sd::ArrayOptions::copyDataType(outShapeInfo, inShapeInfo);                      // type
    *shape::ews(outShapeInfo)             = shape::elementWiseStride(inShapeInfo);  // ews
    outShapeInfo[2 * outShapeInfo[0] + 3] = shape::order(inShapeInfo);              // order
}


//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
// INLINEDEF _CUDA_HD Nd4jLong strideOverContigAxis(const int axis, const Nd4jLong* inShapeInfo) {

//     Nd4jLong result = 9223372036854775807LL;

//     for(uint i = 0; i < shape::rank(inShapeInfo); ++i) {

//         const auto currentStride = shape::stride(inShapeInfo)[i];

//         if(i == axis || shape::shapeOf(inShapeInfo)[i] == 1)
//             continue;

//         if(result > currentStride)
//             result = currentStride;
//     }

//     return result == 9223372036854775807LL ? 1 : result;
// }



}

#endif /* SHAPE_H_ */