<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 17:52, Barry Smith <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bsmith@mcs.anl.gov">bsmith@mcs.anl.gov</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Understood, thus there is the possiblity of user error if they are ghosting but process a non-ghosted vector. I think the fact that basic stuff runs unchanged on one process with seq (for non-periodic stuff) out ways the risk of this problem.</blockquote>
</div><br><div>Okay, after brief flirtation, I have remove VecIsGhosted(). Now VecGhostGetLocalForm() never returns an error, but it does return NULL if the Vec is not ghosted and not sequential.</div><div><br></div><div>
VecGhostUpdateBegin() still throws an error if the Vec is not ghosted or sequential.</div>