[petsc-dev] Inconsistency in MatDestroy of shell matrices

[Matthew Knepley]

On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 5:35 AM, Jose E. Roman <jroman at dsic.upv.es> wrote:

> The manpage of MatShellSetOperation states that "all user-provided
> functions should have the same calling sequence as the usual matrix
> interface routines", but this does not apply to MATOP_DESTROY due to the
> change MatDestroy(Mat)-->MatDestroy(Mat*) in 3.2.
>
> One possible fix would be that all MatDestroy_* functions receive a
> pointer. Or alternatively warn about the exception in the manpage of
> MatShellSetOperation.


There is nothing preventing us from having two different signatures, but I
think the internak destroys should take a pointer.

   Matt


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> Jose
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