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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 3:17 PM, Jed Brown <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jed@jedbrown.org" target="_blank">jed@jedbrown.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="">Matthew Knepley <<a href="mailto:knepley@gmail.com">knepley@gmail.com</a>> writes:<br>
>> array = (PetscScalar**)malloc(sizeof(PetscScalar*) * dof);<br>
>> for (k = 0; k < dof; k++){<br>
>> array[k] = (PetscScalar*)malloc(sizeof(PetscScalar) * dof);<br>
>> }<br>
>><br>
>> When I pass it to MatSetValuesBlocked() there is a problem. Either Petsc<br>
>> complains because I am not passing it the right way or when it accepts it,<br>
>> wrong data is passed because the solution is not correct. Maybe Petsc<br>
>> expect dof*dof values and only dof are passed ?<br>
>><br>
><br>
> You can only pass contiguous memory to MatSetValues().<br>
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</div>And, while perhaps atypical, VecGetArray2D will give you contiguous<br>
memory behind the scenes, so it would work in this case. (Make a Vec of<br>
the right size using COMM_SELF instead of malloc.)<br>
<br>
With C99, you can use VLA pointers to get the "2D indexing" without<br>
setting up explicit pointers.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Since for some reasons I need global two-dimensional arrays, what I did is the following.</div><div>I declared a PetscScalar **array outside main(), ie before dof is determined.</div>
<div>Then, knowing dof I use malloc inside main() to allocate memory to the array. I use then array in different functions and in order to pass it to MatSetValues, I copy it to a local and classical two-dimensional array[dof][dof] (contiguous memory) which is passed to MatSetValues. It works.</div>
<div><br></div><div>But I'll try with VecGetArray2D.</div></div><br></div></div>