request for advice cleaning up SNES

[Matthew Knepley]

On 9/3/07, Lisandro Dalcin <dalcinl at gmail.com> wrote:
> In de process of cleaning up SNES, I am not sure about the management
> of afine (rhs) vector. So the question is:
>
> If the user call:
>
> SNESSolve(PETSC_NULL, x)
>
> should any previously set (VecSetRhs) afine vector be destroyed/zeroed
> or should it not be touched in any way?

I think it should be destroyed.

> BTW, I believe in the past you had and next removed
> KSPSetRhs()/KSPSetSolution() . Should this approach be also followed
> in SNES? IMHO, the final interface would be simpler and less
> error-prone.

Not sure. Why are these there?

  Matt

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