diff --git a/davidson.h b/davidson.h
index 50cb390..c48e890 100644
--- a/davidson.h
+++ b/davidson.h
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ namespace LA {
 
 
 template <typename T, typename Matrix>
-extern void davidson(const Matrix &bigmat, NRVec<T> &eivals, NRVec<T> *eivecs, const char *eivecsfile, 
+void davidson(const Matrix &bigmat, NRVec<T> &eivals, NRVec<T> *eivecs, const char *eivecsfile, 
 		int nroots=1,  const bool verbose=0, const double eps=1e-6,
 	 	const bool incore=1, int maxit=100, const int maxkrylov = 500,
 		void (*initguess)(NRVec<T> &)=NULL, const typename LA_traits<T>::normtype *target=NULL)
@@ -309,6 +309,25 @@ if(incore) {delete[] v0; delete[] v1;}
 else  {delete s0; delete s1;}
 
 if(flag) laerror("no convergence in davidson");
+} //davidson
+
+
+//reconstruction of explicit dense matrix from the implicit one (useful for debugging)
+template <typename T, typename Matrix>
+NRMat<T> explicit_matrix(const Matrix &bigmat) 
+{
+NRMat<T> r(bigmat.nrows(), bigmat.ncols());
+for(int i=0; i<bigmat.ncols(); ++i)
+        {
+	NRVec<T> ket(bigmat.ncols());
+        ket.clear();
+        ket[i]=(T)1;
+        NRVec<T> hket(bigmat.nrows());
+        bigmat.gemv((T)0,hket,'n',(T)1,ket);
+	for(int l=0; l<bigmat.nrows(); ++l) r(l,i) = hket[l];
+        }
+
+return r;
 }
 
 }//namespace
diff --git a/t.cc b/t.cc
index 00e1cf8..5c17b48 100644
--- a/t.cc
+++ b/t.cc
@@ -4626,7 +4626,7 @@ cout <<z.shape;
 
 #undef sparsity
 #define sparsity (n*2)
-if(1)
+if(0)
 {
 int n,m;
 cin >>n>>m;
@@ -4650,5 +4650,14 @@ if(n<=20)
 	}
 }
 
+if(1);
+{
+int n,m;
+cin>> n>>m;
+NRMat<double> a(n,m);
+a.randomize(1.);
+NRMat<double> b = explicit_matrix<double,NRMat<double> >(a);
+cout <<"Error = "<<(a-b).norm()<<endl;
+}
 
 }//main