[petsc-dev] Why --with-dynamic-loading?

[Jed Brown]

Matthew Knepley <knepley at gmail.com> writes:
> We wanted to initialize a given library before anything in it was
> used.  

Why?

> Dynamic libraries give us a hook when we load them, but we do not have
> that statically. I could not think of another way to do it.

I understand that dynamic libraries allow you to do so, but what does
that buy you?


Also, given that the first line of KSPInitializePackage is:

  if (KSPPackageInitialized) PetscFunctionReturn(0);

and PetscDLLibraryRegister_petscksp has already called
KSPInitializePackage, isn't the preprocessor guard redundant?
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