<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Is this change going to be part of the next patch release, or the eventual 3.7?<div class=""><br class=""><div class="">
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<br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jan 14, 2016, at 10:42 AM, Satish Balay <<a href="mailto:balay@mcs.anl.gov" class="">balay@mcs.anl.gov</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">Hopefully all changes should be documented in the changes file..<br class=""><br class=""><a href="http://www.mcs.anl.gov/petsc/documentation/changes/dev.html" class="">http://www.mcs.anl.gov/petsc/documentation/changes/dev.html</a><br class=""><br class="">You can use git to find out more info..<br class=""><br class="">balay@asterix /home/balay/petsc (master=)<br class="">$ git grep PetscOptionsGetScalar include/<br class="">include/petscoptions.h:PETSC_EXTERN PetscErrorCode PetscOptionsGetScalar(PetscOptions,const char[],const char[],PetscScalar *,PetscBool *);<br class="">include/petscoptions.h:PETSC_EXTERN PetscErrorCode PetscOptionsGetScalarArray(PetscOptions,const char[],const char[],PetscScalar[],PetscInt *,PetscBool *);<br class="">balay@asterix /home/balay/petsc (hzhang/update-networkex=)<br class="">$ git annotate include/petscoptions.h |grep PetscOptionsGetScalar<br class="">c5929fdf       (Barry Smith           2015-10-30 21:20:21 -0500 17)PETSC_EXTERN PetscErrorCode PetscOptionsGetScalar(PetscOptions,const char[],const char[],PetscScalar *,PetscBool *);<br class="">c5929fdf       (Barry Smith           2015-10-30 21:20:21 -0500 20)PETSC_EXTERN PetscErrorCode PetscOptionsGetScalarArray(PetscOptions,const char[],const char[],PetscScalar[],PetscInt *,PetscBool *);<br class="">balay@asterix /home/balay/petsc (hzhang/update-networkex=)<br class="">$ git show -q c5929fdf<br class="">commit c5929fdf3082647d199855a5c1d0286204349b03<br class="">Author: Barry Smith <bsmith@mcs.anl.gov><br class="">Date:   Fri Oct 30 21:20:21 2015 -0500<br class=""><br class="">    Complete update to new PetscOptions interface<br class="">balay@asterix /home/balay/petsc (hzhang/update-networkex=)<br class="">$ gitk c5929fdf<br class=""><br class="">etc..<br class=""><br class="">Satish<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">On Thu, 14 Jan 2016, Gideon Simpson wrote:<br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">I know I did a git pull recently, but when did that change?  What’s the fifth argument represent?<br class=""><br class="">-gideon<br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">On Jan 13, 2016, at 11:54 PM, Satish Balay <balay@mcs.anl.gov> wrote:<br class=""><br class="">On Wed, 13 Jan 2016, Gideon Simpson wrote:<br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">I haven’t seen this before:<br class=""><br class="">/mnt/HA/opt/openmpi/intel/2015/1.8.1-mlnx-ofed/bin/mpicc -o fixed_batch.o -c -fPIC  -wd1572 -g   -I/home/simpson/software/petsc/include -I/home/simpson/software/petsc/arch-linux2-c-debug/include -I/mnt/HA/opt/openmpi/intel/2015/1.8.1-mlnx-ofed/include   -Wall `pwd`/fixed_batch.c<br class="">/home/simpson/projects/dnls/petsc/fixed_batch.c(44): warning #167: argument of type "PetscScalar={PetscReal={double}} *" is incompatible with parameter of type "const char *"<br class="">     PetscOptionsGetScalar(NULL,"-xmax",&xmax,NULL);<br class="">                                        ^<br class=""><br class="">/home/simpson/projects/dnls/petsc/fixed_batch.c(44): error #165: too few arguments in function call<br class="">     PetscOptionsGetScalar(NULL,"-xmax",&xmax,NULL);<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">Try:<br class=""><br class="">     PetscOptionsGetScalar(NULL,NULL,"-xmax",&xmax,NULL);<br class=""><br class="">Satish<br class=""></blockquote><br class=""><br class=""></blockquote></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>