[petsc-dev] why does this inanity exist?

[Lisandro Dalcin]

On 1 May 2017 at 00:05, Jed Brown <jed at jedbrown.org> wrote:
> Why not PetscStrallocpy like in PetscObjectChangeTypeName.  Seems easier
> to do that than to explain in the documentation that the string cannot
> be constructed dynamically.

Just because I think this is not really needed, but of course I might
be wrong. Anyway, moving to what you suggest should be trivial to
handle. Give me some time to put the PR together, and we can discuss
it again with actual code in front of our eyes.


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