[petsc-dev] What's the point of D(A/M)GetGlobalVector?

[Lisandro Dalcin]

On 27 August 2010 10:27, Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
>
> On Aug 27, 2010, at 8:13 AM, Aron Ahmadia wrote:
>
> Not to mention the various Get routines that are actually used to create
> things, such as DAGetMatrix.  Still, the idea of a pool of work vectors
> makes sense, I was just trying to wrap my head around the actual use for
> those routines.
>
>    Aron,
>     DAGetMatrix() is actually a bug and should be DACreateMatrix()   (or
> maybe better DACreateMat() while the DACreateGlobalVector() and friends
> should really be DACreateGlobalVec()).

I think you are right.

>
>     Are there others beside DAGetMatrix() that are incorrect with gets that
> should be creates?

MatGetVecs()


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