[petsc-dev] About the future XXXDestroy(&obj) change

[Chen Shen]

The message about xxxDestroy was posted on 1st April... I sincerely hope the
message was meant for that day alone.

shenchen

On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 11:07 PM, Lisandro Dalcin <dalcinl at gmail.com> wrote:

> Barry, I'm working on getting petsc4py ready for our XXXDestroy
> change. A quick question: Are the XXXDestroy_YYY functions of subtypes
> going to change? I would ask you to NOT change them (it's harder for
> you to implement, it's harder for me to provide backward
> compatibility, IMHO there is not a compelling reason as these
> destructors should not set the pointer to zero, etc.).
>
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