[petsc-dev] 3.9 Fortran changes

[Barry Smith]

   Maybe we should have a separate section at the bottom of the changes file for internal changes to PETSc that do not affect the user API.

  Barry


> On Sep 19, 2020, at 2:40 PM, Satish Balay via petsc-dev <petsc-dev at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
> 
> https://gitlab.com/petsc/petsc/commit/b7b8f77a1c31acd4cca9a56e02609d1dffe2a4b3 
> 
> include/petsc/private/f90impl.h is not really user facing - so perhaps this shouldn't have been mentioned in the changes file.
> 
> Satish
> 
> On Sat, 19 Sep 2020, Victor Eijkhout wrote:
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>> "The F90Array routines now take a MPI_Datatype argument instead of a PetscDataType. This should not affect user code.”
>> 
>> What does that refer to?
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>> https://www.mcs.anl.gov/petsc/petsc-current/docs/manualpages/Mat/MatDenseGetArrayF90.html
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>> has no MPI_Datatype arguments.
>> 
>> V.
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