[petsc-dev] Matlab writes dense matrices as vectors

[Barry Smith]

On Apr 19, 2012, at 9:06 AM, Jed Brown wrote:

> It writes the whole thing as one vector, should we require the caller to reshape to clearly identify it as a vector? Then anything with multiple columns could be written as a matrix (e.g. by internally calling sparse()).

   I cannot remember why I defaulted to this behavior.  (Probably for people using DMDA and automatically reshaping a read in vector into its DMDA defined shape and then later wanting to save that as a vector). I guess it might be more intuitive to change it as you suggest.

   Barry