[petsc-dev] tao and complex numbers

[Lisandro Dalcin]

On 8 February 2015 at 19:39, Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
>
>   Since all the TAO implementations seem to have
>
> #requiresscalar    real
>
> in the makefile why don't we just move that up to the tao directory level and put an error generator in tao.h if included with complex so users see immediately and clearly they cannot us tao with complex instead of having to send us email?
>

I'm afraid this will break petsc4py in a hard-to-fix way. Why not to
just generate an error at TaoCreate()?


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