[petsc-dev] Negative blocksize

[Matthew Knepley]

On Wed, Sep 4, 2019 at 12:14 PM Václav Hapla via petsc-dev <
petsc-dev at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:

> Is there any reason why PetscLayoutSetUp couldn't guarantee blocksize >=
> 1? I don't like the negative value being there forever requiring all that
> PetscAbs business. It seems to me it just complicates things unnecessarily.
>

We are using -1 to indicate "never set", but I don't see any reason to keep
it after SetUp().

   Matt


> Thanks,
> Vaclav



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