[petsc-dev] DMSetDefaultSection destroys old sections

[Chris Eldred]

I get an error when I try to use that:

[0]PETSC ERROR: --------------------- Error Message
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[0]PETSC ERROR: Corrupt argument:
see http://www.mcs.anl.gov/petsc/documentation/faq.html#valgrind!
[0]PETSC ERROR: Invalid type of object: Parameter # 1!
[0]PETSC ERROR:
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[0]PETSC ERROR: Petsc Development HG revision:
56f27b189e4fd57f5a4b7ffd6aa6bb08bd8a4d5b  HG Date: Wed Aug 29 12:03:50
2012 -0500
[0]PETSC ERROR: See docs/changes/index.html for recent updates.
[0]PETSC ERROR: See docs/faq.html for hints about trouble shooting.
[0]PETSC ERROR: See docs/index.html for manual pages.
[0]PETSC ERROR:
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[0]PETSC ERROR: ./swe on a arch-linu named Puget-101334 by user Thu
Aug 30 16:35:51 2012
[0]PETSC ERROR: Libraries linked from
/home/user/Desktop/LIBRARIES/petsc-dev/arch-linux2-cxx-debug/lib
[0]PETSC ERROR: Configure run at Wed Aug 29 12:49:26 2012
[0]PETSC ERROR: Configure options --download-boost --download-chaco
--download-ctetgen --download-f-blas-lapack --download-fiat
--download-generator --download-metis --download-ml --download-mpich
--download-parmetis --download-scientificpython --download-triangle
--with-clanguage=cxx --with-dynamic-loading --with-shared-libraries
--with-sieve PETSC_ARCH=arch-linux2-cxx-debug
[0]PETSC ERROR:
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[0]PETSC ERROR: PetscObjectReference() line 378 in
/home/user/Desktop/LIBRARIES/petsc-dev/src/sys/objects/inherit.c
application called MPI_Abort(MPI_COMM_WORLD, 64) - process 0
[unset]: aborting job:
application called MPI_Abort(MPI_COMM_WORLD, 64) - process 0


On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 4:32 PM, Jed Brown <jedbrown at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 5:30 PM, Chris Eldred <chris.eldred at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> How would I use PetscObjectReference((PetscObject)section) in Fortran?
>
>
> call PetscObjectReference(section,ierr)
>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 4:16 PM, Jed Brown <jedbrown at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
>> > On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 5:12 PM, Matthew Knepley <knepley at gmail.com>
>> > wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Its not wrong. This is the way I wanted it. You set the PetscSection
>> >> and
>> >> give up control. If you
>> >> do not want to give up control, then call PetscObjectReference() before
>> >> passing it in.
>> >
>> >
>> > Since this is (a) different from everything else in PETSc and (b) not
>> > explicitly documented, it is doubly wrong.
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Chris Eldred
>> DOE Computational Science Graduate Fellow
>> Graduate Student, Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University
>> B.S. Applied Computational Physics, Carnegie Mellon University, 2009
>> chris.eldred at gmail.com
>
>



-- 
Chris Eldred
DOE Computational Science Graduate Fellow
Graduate Student, Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University
B.S. Applied Computational Physics, Carnegie Mellon University, 2009
chris.eldred at gmail.com