[petsc-dev] debugging server

[Jed Brown]

Åsmund Ervik <asmund.ervik at ntnu.no> writes:

> Just a quick comment re: users being incapable of using
> -start_in_debugger etc.: when I started using PETSc a couple of years
> ago, it was very surprising and strange to me that PETSc augmented my
> code such that it now accepted command line arguments. It probably
> took me quite a few months to figure this out, it was simply
> unexpected. 

If you don't pass argc and argv to PetscInitialize, then command-line
arguments are not parsed.

> Perhaps it could be spelled out more clearly?

Where exactly do you think would be appropriate?  Some extra text in the
man page for PetscInitalize, or elsewhere?
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