testing new repository

[Hong Zhang]

Lisandro,

The memory leak occurs for all in-place MatConvert().
I suspect your changes might affect
 MatHeaderReplace() used in the in-place MatConvert().
I have trouble figuring out what causes it.
You might have some clue about it.

Hong

On Sat, 6 Oct 2007, Satish Balay wrote:

> On Fri, 5 Oct 2007, Lisandro Dalcin wrote:
>
> > And please, send me the failures...
>
> Lisandro,
>
> I haven't yet checked the nightly builds properly. Some of the issues
> I've been checking were with code already in petsc-dev. [So the
> current checks are from the tests I ran on my laptop]
>
> Most of the 'strict aliasing' I've seen so far are compile issues with
> sieve and other external pacakges[spooles,superlu_dist,pmetis.c etc..]
> wrt PetscObject usage.
>
> [so the fix for PetscObject stuff was simple enough for met to do and
> test]. I'm attaching the patch of the changes that worked. Let me know
> if this is ok to commit and push.
>
> There is also the following memory leak - which I haven't checked
> yet..  Perhaps there is some incorrect reference counting somewhere.
>
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
> testexamples_C in: /home/balay/tmp/petsc-dalcinl/src/mat/examples/tests
> 0a1,10
> > [0]Total space allocated 1380 bytes
> > [ 0]460 bytes MatCreate() line 80 in src/mat/utils/gcreate.c
> >       [0]  MatConvert_SeqBAIJ_SeqSBAIJ() line 276 in src/mat/impls/sbaij/seq/aijsbaij.c
> >       [0]  MatConvert() line 3142 in src/mat/interface/matrix.c
> > [ 0]460 bytes MatCreate() line 80 in src/mat/utils/gcreate.c
> >       [0]  MatDuplicate_SeqBAIJ() line 2448 in src/mat/impls/baij/seq/baij.c
> >       [0]  MatConvert() line 3142 in src/mat/interface/matrix.c
> > [ 0]460 bytes MatCreate() line 80 in src/mat/utils/gcreate.c
> >       [0]  MatConvert_SeqBAIJ_SeqAIJ() line 17 in src/mat/impls/baij/seq/aijbaij.c
> >       [0]  MatConvert() line 3142 in src/mat/interface/matrix.c
> Possible problem with ex55_1, diffs above
> 52a53,55
> > [0]Total space allocated 460 bytes
> > [ 0]460 bytes MatCreate() line 80 in src/mat/utils/gcreate.c
> >       [0]  MatCreateSeqAIJ() line 2777 in src/mat/impls/aij/seq/aij.c
> Possible problem with ex114_1, diffs above
> <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
>
> Prometheus also nees some PetscObject changes - I can send Mark the
> changes to update the prometheus tarball later..
>
> thanks,
> Satish