[petsc-dev] Add PetscFree1() ?

[Jed Brown]

PetscFree and PetscFree1 would be equivalent so I don't think it's
needed, but wouldn't object if you feel strongly about it.

Lots of macros should not be.  I think PetscFree can use PetscFreeA
which would evaluate its argument only once while still guaranteeing
that it be zeroed.

Lisandro Dalcin <dalcinl at gmail.com> writes:

> Jed, just for the sake of consistency, don't we need PetscFree1()?
>
> Also, PetscFree() is a macro, and evaluates twice the first arg, I
> just had to fix a bug in my code that was doing
>
> while (ctx->size > 0)
>     PetscFree(ctx->arrayOfPointers[--ctx->size]);
> PetscFree(ctx->arrayOfPointers)
>
>
> I guess we should just rewrite PetscFree() to be safer, but too close
> to release right now to play these games...
>
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