[petsc-dev] What is wrong with CHKERRQ() after PetscInitialize()?

[Matthew Knepley]

On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 8:14 PM, Jed Brown <jedbrown at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 8:10 PM, Matthew Knepley <knepley at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> This is bad design. We should setup CHKERRQ structs first. If they fail
>> during setup we should MPI_Abort.
>
>
> It is never okay to unconditionally call MPI_Abort.
>

What do you think we do when that Petsc Exception bottoms out?

  Matt

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