[petsc-dev] NULL arg for AIJ field with MATIS

Mark Adams mfadams at lbl.gov
Mon Jul 7 06:21:30 CDT 2025


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On Sun, Jul 6, 2025 at 2:13 PM Matthew Knepley <knepley at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 3, 2025 at 2:25 PM Mark Adams <mfadams at lbl.gov> wrote:
>
>> I added a case to the SeqAIJ options switch:
>>
>
> It looks like the local matrix is created by MatSetLocalToGlobalMapping(),
> so you cannot call MatSetOption() before that. You should probably put in a
> check
>
>   if (a->A)
>
> here.
>
>   Thanks,
>
>      Matt
>
>
>>  case MAT_COO_BLOCKED_ASSEMBLY:
>>     A->coo_blocked_assembly = flg;
>>     break;
>>
>> And added the flag for this to mat/tests/ex123* and when we have
>> '-mat_type is', I get matis calling *MatSetOption* with a NULL argument
>> (a->A)
>>
>> What is wrong here? Not being able to use blocked assembly for matis is
>> fine, but this is not a useful error message.
>>
>> x* thread #1, queue = 'com.apple.main-thread', stop reason = breakpoint
>> 1.1
>>     frame #0: 0x0000000128c58223 libpetsc.3.023.dylib`PetscError(comm=0,
>> line=-1, func=0x0000000000000000, file="", n=PETSC_SUCCESS,
>> p=PETSC_ERROR_INITIAL, mess="*Null Pointer: Parameter # %d*") at
>> err.c:387
>>     frame #1: 0x000000011fa3df99 libpetsc.3.023.dylib`*MatSetOption(mat=0x0000000000000000,
>> op=MAT_COO_BLOCKED_ASSEMBLY, flg=PETSC_TRUE) a*t matrix.c:6048:3
>>   * frame #2: 0x000000011ebdcfef
>> libpetsc.3.023.dylib`MatSetOption_IS(A=0x0000621000004350,
>> op=MAT_COO_BLOCKED_ASSEMBLY, flg=PETSC_TRUE) at matis.c:3286:3
>>     frame #3: 0x000000011fa4a7e0
>> libpetsc.3.023.dylib`MatSetOption(mat=0x0000621000004350,
>> op=MAT_COO_BLOCKED_ASSEMBLY, flg=PETSC_TRUE) at matrix.c:6127:3
>>     frame #4: 0x000000011fd87f66
>> libpetsc.3.023.dylib`MatSetFromOptions(B=0x0000621000004350) at
>> gcreate.c:320:12
>>     frame #5: 0x00000001000039d3 ex123`main(argc=11,
>> args=0x000000030412d1f0) at ex123.c:44:3
>>     frame #6: 0x0000000200018530 dyld`start + 3056
>>
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