[petsc-dev] Inconsistency in MatDestroy of shell matrices

[Barry Smith]

On Dec 12, 2011, at 5:35 AM, Jose E. Roman 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.
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> One possible fix would be that all MatDestroy_* functions receive a pointer. Or alternatively warn about the exception in the manpage of MatShellSetOperation.

   I've fixed the manual page to clarify except for the MATOP_DESTROY

   Barry

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