[petsc-dev] man pages for 'rank' and 'size'

Barry Smith bsmith at mcs.anl.gov
Sun Feb 7 16:27:22 CST 2010


   "spurious links"? Actually that was the whole idea :-)

   Problem is sometimes people use the word size to mean something  
different than size. size is suppose to be a reserved word in PETSc  
meaning size.

    Barry

On Feb 7, 2010, at 12:47 PM, Jed Brown wrote:

> The presence of these non-namespaced man pages cause lots of spurious
> links in other man pages and the user's manual (especially 'size').   
> Do
> these man pages actually benefit anyone?  It seems to me that their
> content could just be merged into comm/MPI_Comm.
>
> Jed




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