[petsc-dev] removing PETSC_NULL?

[Barry Smith]

On Feb 6, 2013, at 10:07 PM, Jed Brown <jedbrown at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:

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> On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 9:58 PM, Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
> > I don't mind removing it, although the Fortran people still have to use something else.
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>   We can leave it as PETSC_NULL_XXXX in Fortran as it is now.
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> We have no other option.

  We could use NULL_XXXX but that would be horrible :-)

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> Recall that Fortran users must not use PETSC_NULL under any circumstances. I think that if anything, replacing PETSC_NULL with NULL in C would make the necessity of PETSC_NULL_XXX more clear.