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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#1F497D">Dave,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#1F497D">Thanks for your answer.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#1F497D">For consistency with otehr PETSc routines it would perhaps make sense to create a DMDARestoreAO function?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#1F497D">Regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#1F497D">Federico<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="IT" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#404040;mso-fareast-language:IT">Federico Miorelli</span><span lang="IT" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:IT"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="IT" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:IT">Senior R&D Geophysicist<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> Dave May [mailto:dave.mayhem23@gmail.com]
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<b>Sent:</b> giovedì 12 maggio 2016 13:03<br>
<b>To:</b> Miorelli, Federico<br>
<b>Cc:</b> petsc-users@mcs.anl.gov<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [petsc-users] DMDAGetAO and AODestroy<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On 12 May 2016 at 11:36, Miorelli, Federico <<a href="mailto:Federico.Miorelli@cgg.com" target="_blank">Federico.Miorelli@cgg.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-family:Consolas">In one of my subroutines I'm calling DMDAGetAO to get the application ordering from a DM structure.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-family:Consolas">After using it I was calling AODestroy.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-family:Consolas">Everything worked fine until I called the subroutine for the second time, when the program crashed.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-family:Consolas">Removing the call to AODestroy solved the crash.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-family:Consolas">Am I supposed to AODestroy the output of DMDAGetAO or not? I was worried that DMDAGetAO would allocate memory that I need to release.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">You are not supposed to call AODestroy() on the AO returned.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">The pointer being returned is used internally by the DMDA.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">  Dave<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-family:Consolas">Thanks,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-family:Consolas">Federico</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="IT" style="color:#1F497D">Senior R&D Geophysicist</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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