SNESSetApplicationContext usage

[Matthew Knepley]

On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 8:54 PM, Vijay S. Mahadevan <vijay.m at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>  I am trying to use the SNESSetApplicationContext function to set an object
>  as a user application context. This is being done after the SNESSolve was
>  already called once on the SNES object, using a NULL application context.
>
>  For some reason, after the SNESSetApplicationContext call, the application
>  context on SNES is not being set. I am wondering if maybe I need to set some
>  flag to tell the SNES object to include this new context in further residual
>  and Jacobian calls. I saw the code for the SNESSetApplicationContext
>  function and it doesn't look like it but may be I am missing something ?

There is a misunderstanding. The application context is separate from both the
Function context and the Jacobian context. If you want to change these, you
must call SetFunction/Jacobian() again.

  Matt

>  Thanks for the help.
>
>  Vijay
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