<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 15:59, Dmitry Karpeev <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:karpeev@mcs.anl.gov">karpeev@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">
<div>As a separate matter, however, should preallocated, but not assembled matrices be able to be duplicated or copied?</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>It doesn't even make semantic sense for Copy.</div><div><br>
</div><div>Duplicate only makes sense in that the sizes and types get set, but obviously the sparsity can't be set, so it doesn't have the (stated) semantics of Duplicate.</div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div>As currently implemented, MatDuplicate() and MatCopy() will refuse to operate on a matrix that is !assembled.</div></blockquote></div><br>