[petsc-dev] printing the matrix name via -mat_view_info

[Barry Smith]

   Good idea. But why just for Matrices, why not for all objects? 

   If no name is set do we use PetscObjectName() to generate one at that time or only print a name if it already has one (I lean toward that).

   I'll start on this.



   Barry


On Sep 29, 2010, at 2:28 PM, Shri wrote:

> Is there a way to print the matrix name so that -mat_view_info prints it out.
> 
> Instead of
> 
> Matrix Object:
>  type=mpiaij, rows=200, cols=200
>  total: nonzeros=40000, allocated nonzeros=40000
>  total number of mallocs used during MatSetVal
> 
> it should print
> 
> Matrix Object: <MATRIX_NAME>
>  type=mpiaij, rows=200, cols=200
>  total: nonzeros=40000, allocated nonzeros=40000
>  total number of mallocs used during MatSetVal
> 
> It'll be nice to have the matrix name printed out cause sometimes it gets confusing when there are a lot of matrices you are working with. 
> Either the user can set a name and it could be printed out in mat_view_info or even better if in some way the variable name can be used directly.
> 
> What do you think?
> 
> Shri