[petsc-users] Calling MatDestroy on MatGetDiagonalBlock

[Barry Smith]

  In general XXXGetYYY() do not increase the reference count and you should not destroy. Some XXXGetYYY() have a corresponding XXXRestoreYYY(). 

  XXXCreateYYY() DO increase the reference count and should have destroy called.

  So  get -> no destroy
        create -> destroy

  Barry

In the past we were not consistent between the usages but now I think it is consistent.


> On Jan 5, 2016, at 5:24 PM, Bhalla, Amneet Pal S <amneetb at live.unc.edu> wrote:
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>> On Jan 5, 2016, at 3:20 PM, Dave May <dave.mayhem23 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> This statement would imply that in the absence of calling PetscObjectReference() yourself, you should not call MatDestroy() on the matrix returned
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> Got it. Thanks!
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