[petsc-dev] Registration implicitly collective on COMM_WORLD

[Jed Brown]

On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 11:33 PM, Matthew Knepley <knepley at gmail.com> wrote:

> I see nothing wrong with those tradeoffs, its just beginning to sound
> complicated to me (like the Fortran stuff I can never remember).
> I would say, if you split the libraries, you have to do everything
> manually, and we just error out if you don't. That is easy to remember,
> and I think its harder for a user to have a working code that breaks
> mysteriously when one thing changes, like the comm.
>

Okay, is this what you have in mind?

1. XXInitializePackage() grows a comm argument
2. PetscFunctionListAdd() loses the comm argument
3. XXCreate() stops calling XXInitializePackage() and instead just asserts
XXPackageInitialized.
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