[petsc-dev] Barry, why would you do such a thing?

[Barry Smith]

On Jan 18, 2012, at 3:49 PM, Jed Brown wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 12:49, Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
> Debugging fragment that should never been committed. I wanted more information from MPI about the problem it detected then was traditionally available. Maybe when the option -on_error_abor it used it should not set this MPI property?
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> Minor technical issue:
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> We currently set the error handler before checking options. Which should we do?

   Set it to return on error as soon as possible

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> 1. delay setting the error handler until we have checked for the option.
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> 2. save the default error handler and restore it when we process -on_error_abort

   Change it to MPI_ERRORS_ARE_FATAL   when processing options if the user requests -on_error_abort.    


    Barry

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>     Uncomment the line
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> pushed