fixes for VecPlaceArray/VecResetArray

Matthew Knepley knepley at gmail.com
Wed Dec 3 17:08:05 CST 2008


On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 5:04 PM, Lisandro Dalcin <dalcinl at gmail.com> wrote:

> I've pushed some fixes for VecPlaceArray/VecResetArray, trying to the
> pair a bit more smarter. However, the I'm not sure what's the use case
> in VecPlaceArray for accepting NULL for the array. Just in case, I did
> not changed this, but if NULL is actually pased, then the call is now
> non-op. Is this fine? I'm missing something??


I think you would like to reset the array back to NULL sometimes, to clear
out
memory of an old array it no longer owns. Is this right?

  Matt


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