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<div class="">On Jan 5, 2016, at 3:32 PM, Barry Smith <<a href="mailto:bsmith@mcs.anl.gov" class="">bsmith@mcs.anl.gov</a>> wrote:</div>
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get -> no destroy</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class="">
<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;" class=""> create
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<div class="">Is MatGetSubMatrices() exception to this rule? The manual says to call the destroy() function after done with it. </div>
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