[petsc-users] error check in C++ constructor

[Matthew Knepley]

You can use CHKERRXX().

  Matt

On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 5:00 PM, Umut Tabak <u.tabak at tudelft.nl> wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> I was looking at some code C++ constructor code where some PETSc Vec's are
> created in the constructor, the problem/question is that constructor does
> not have a return type and CHKERRQ is a replacement for a macro code which
> returns a value, that is the error code.
>
> I guess, the safest bet to check for errors in a constructor is to compare
> the return value from PETSc functions with 0 and issue an error message from
> the constructor, is this reasoning right?
>
> Best regards,
> Umut
>



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