[petsc-dev] size of PetscInt without grepping include

[Ethan Coon]

On Tue, 2011-10-18 at 17:54 -0500, Matthew Knepley wrote:

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> You would need the whole BuildSystem in order to interpret it (and
> maybe the PETSc parts as well). 


Right, which defeats the purpose of having a python module that gets
installed with PETSc to read/write binary files from python.  

I guess the way to get this info is to parse both petscconf.h and
petscvariables to pull out datatypes used in the binary files.  The
matlab scripts doing binary IO require you to know this ahead of time,
but that seems a little silly when we should be able to get this info
from the installation.  I just assumed that all of this would be defined
somewhere in petscvariables.

Ethan

> I
> don't think this is that bad. Python does not have the Java
> serialization model.
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>     Matt
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>         Ethan
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>         >      Matt
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>         >         Ethan
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>         >         On Tue, 2011-10-18 at 16:24 -0500, Barry Smith
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>         Applied Mathematics - T-5
>         Los Alamos National Laboratory
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> experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which
> their experiments lead.
> -- Norbert Wiener

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Ethan Coon
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Applied Mathematics - T-5
Los Alamos National Laboratory
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