MatGetArrayF90 returns 2d array

[Matthew Knepley]

On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 1:19 PM, Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:

I thought the idea was that MatGetArray() never applies to a sparse matrix.
No other
sparse format supports this, does it?

  Matt

  Good point.
>
>    Barry
>
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> On Jun 30, 2009, at 12:45 PM, Stephan Kramer wrote:
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>  Hello,
>>
>> Why is it that MatGetArrayF90 returns a pointer to a 2d scalar array,
>> instead of 1d as stated in the documentation? In fact it seems to always
>> return a nrows x ncolumns array. Is this to deal with the MATDENSE case?
>> Would it not be more elegant to always return a 1d array, so you get what
>> you expect for the sparse matrices, and return a 1d array of length
>> nrows*ncolumns in the case of MATDENSE?
>>
>> Cheers
>> Stephan Kramer
>>
>> --
>> Stephan Kramer
>> Applied Modelling and Computation Group,
>> Department of Earth Science and Engineering,
>> Imperial College London
>>
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>


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