[petsc-dev] VECCUSP needs to be zeroed?

Jed Brown jedbrown at mcs.anl.gov
Wed Nov 9 14:01:40 CST 2011


On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 13:58, Lisandro Dalcin <dalcinl at gmail.com> wrote:

> What tactic? Leave entries uninitialized? I'm just asking for PETSc to
> behave consistently. If CPU memory is zeroed when Vecs are created,
> the same should happen for GPU memory.
>

I agree that it should be consistent between the CPU and GPU. I could go
either way as to whether the default state was initialized or
uninitialized, but I think uninitialized should be available somehow and we
should check that the library behaves correctly in that case.
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