Question on petsc-2.3.3-p13

[Tobias Neckel]

Hello,

we recently switched from petsc-2.3.2-p10 to petsc-2.3.3-p13 (on a Linux 
32 bit architecture, with gcc 4.1.2). Installation and tests of petsc 
worked all well.

Besides some new naming conventions, we encountered a strange compile 
error when using the new version 2.3.3 in our project:

In the file petsc-2.3.3-p13/include/private/vecimpl.h, we get the 
following error in the lines 278 and 300:
petsc-2.3.3-p13/include/private/vecimpl.h error: expected 
primary-expression before ',' token.

We are not including vecimpl.h directly, but possibly indirectly by 
including kspimpl.h, pcimpl.h, and matimpl.h.

When comparing this implementation to the old release, we learnt that 
the methods VecStashValue_Private() and VecStashValuesBlocked_Private(), 
which have been simple defines before, are now sth. like inline functions.

We could eliminate the compile error by simply commenting the two 
corresponding calls of CHKERRQ(ierr) manually in vecimpl.h. So the ',' 
token seems to be one in the define of CHKERRQ.

Is this a known problem? Are there any known solutions (besides this 
workaround)? Or are we misusing/omitting something?

Thanks in advance
Best regards
Tobias Neckel

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