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

[Barry Smith]

On Sep 30, 2010, at 12:35 AM, Jed Brown wrote:

> PetscObjectName for Matlab names is not ideal,

   True

> how should the Matlab user find out what the name of the loaded vector is?

   Whose

> It won't be the same on consecutive identical runs.

   True, though likely it will be the same.

> Or should it practically become mandatory to name objects that will go to Matlab?

   I hate that, someone's been running some computation and then it stops suddenly because they forgot to name an output variable.

   Barry

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> Jed
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>> On Sep 30, 2010 2:56 AM, "Barry Smith" <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
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>>  I have added PetscObjectPrintClassNamePrefixType() which is now (in theory) used uniformly in all the XXXView ASCII info formats to display this information appropriately. A nice improvement, eliminated lots of duplicate code and makes it easier to have uniform output.
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>>  PetscObjects are NOT given names by default, you should call PetscObjectSetName() to give it a name.  In a small number of places when an object NEEDS a name, for example when it is saved to Matlab with that variable name then PetscObjectName() is called to generate a "unique" name.
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>>   Thanks for the suggestion,
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>>   Barry
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>> > What does PetscObjectName() do??Generate a random name??
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>> Currently it generates a name that loo...
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>> On Sep 29, 2010, at 2:28 PM, Shri wrote:
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>> > Is there a way to print the matrix name so that -mat_view_info prints it out.
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>> > Instead of
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