[petsc-dev] threadcomm memory leak

Jed Brown jedbrown at mcs.anl.gov
Tue Jul 17 22:07:55 CDT 2012


On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 10:06 PM, Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:

> Ok, then the destructor called by the MPI_Comm_del() would decrease the
> reference count by one and if it gets to zero then does the delete as usual.
>

This is exactly what is done, but PETSC_COMM_WORLD and PETSC_COMM_SELF
outlive PetscFinalize, so we remove one more reference count for each of
those so that it actually gets collected.
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