<div dir="ltr">On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 5:34 PM, Barry Smith <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bsmith@mcs.anl.gov" target="_blank">bsmith@mcs.anl.gov</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">
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Certain PETSc "functions" are documented as being "Developer" level. Does this mean they will be in a "developer" API as opposed to the "user" API (for example in xxximpl.h instead of petscxxx.h)? Or will there not be a "developer" API at all and xxximpl.h merely provides access to the direct data structure.<br>
</blockquote><div><br></div><div style>I thought Developer meant "we are still figuring this out", or "you can really hurt yourself here", not "this is secret".</div><div style><br></div><div style>
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On Feb 12, 2013, at 4:24 PM, Jed Brown <<a href="mailto:jedbrown@mcs.anl.gov">jedbrown@mcs.anl.gov</a>> wrote:<br>
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> The PetscObjectState* and PetscObjectComposedData* routines are in petscimpl, but documented as a public API. It would be nice to turn all these macros into functions (which will change their signature).<br>
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I'm a big fan of turning CPP macros into functions so would be happy to see this happen.<br>
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> I'm dubious of any claims that these are called in a context where a static function call would be a performance limitation.<br>
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> On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 9:39 AM, Jed Brown <<a href="mailto:jedbrown@mcs.anl.gov">jedbrown@mcs.anl.gov</a>> wrote:<br>
> petscsys.h no longer includes petscimpl.h (including the _p_PetscObject definition) and petscvec.h no longer includes vecimpl.h (including _p_Vec). Users that need direct access can include the private headers, but we encourage you to explain your use case here so that we can provide a suitable public API.<br>
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> Merged here:<br>
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> <a href="https://bitbucket.org/petsc/petsc-dev/commits/5c59734726c7c41f493a5f5b9303cfab5c66ae21" target="_blank">https://bitbucket.org/petsc/petsc-dev/commits/5c59734726c7c41f493a5f5b9303cfab5c66ae21</a><br>
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</blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br>What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their experiments lead.<br>
-- Norbert Wiener
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