[petsc-dev] PetscPrintf() is never suppose to be used to print error messages

[Jed Brown]

On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 11:39 AM, Jed Brown <jedbrown at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 11:32 AM, Matthew Knepley <knepley at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> I fixed the simple thing, but the PrintMatSetValues() is problematic.
>> Right now, it just prints using
>> PetscPrintf, which is wrong for errors like this, but correct for other
>> things. For normal things, I
>> could make it take a viewer, which could be PETSC_VIEWER_STDOUT_SELF, and
>> reproduce
>> this behavior. However, do we need to add default viewers for the error
>> streams?
>>
>
> Like PETSC_VIEWER_STDERR_ ?
>

Actually, that's not great because it always prints the rest of PetscError
with PETSC_ERROR_INITIAL.
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