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+## Copyright (C) 2009, 2010 Lukas F. Reichlin
+##
+## This file is part of LTI Syncope.
+##
+## LTI Syncope is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+## it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+## the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+## (at your option) any later version.
+##
+## LTI Syncope is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+## but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+## MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
+## GNU General Public License for more details.
+##
+## You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+## along with LTI Syncope. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
+## -*- texinfo -*-
+## Number of outputs (p), inputs (m) and states (n) of state space matrices.
+## For internal use only.
+
+## Author: Lukas Reichlin <lukas.reichlin@gmail.com>
+## Created: September 2009
+## Version: 0.2
+
+function [p, m, n] = __ss_dim__ (a, b, c, d, e = [])
+
+ ## TODO: create oct-file?
+
+ if (! is_real_matrix (a, b, c, d, e))
+ error ("ss: system matrices must be real");
+ endif
+
+ [arows, acols] = size (a);
+ [brows, bcols] = size (b);
+ [crows, ccols] = size (c);
+ [drows, dcols] = size (d);
+
+ m = bcols; # = dcols
+ n = arows; # = acols
+ p = crows; # = drows
+
+ if (arows != acols)
+ error ("ss: system matrix a(%dx%d) is not square", arows, acols);
+ endif
+
+ if (brows != arows)
+ error ("ss: system matrices a(%dx%d) and b(%dx%d) are incompatible",
+ arows, acols, brows, bcols);
+ endif
+
+ if (ccols != acols)
+ error ("ss: system matrices a(%dx%d) and c(%dx%d) are incompatible",
+ arows, acols, crows, ccols);
+ endif
+
+ if (bcols != dcols)
+ error ("ss: system matrices b(%dx%d) and d(%dx%d) are incompatible",
+ brows, bcols, drows, dcols);
+ endif
+
+ if (crows != drows)
+ error ("ss: system matrices c(%dx%d) and d(%dx%d) are incompatible",
+ crows, ccols, drows, dcols);
+ endif
+
+ if (! isempty (e) && ! size_equal (e, a))
+ error ("ss: system matrices a(%dx%d) and e(%dx%d) are incompatible",
+ arows, acols, rows (e), columns (e));
+ endif
+
+endfunction