PetscMalloc petsc-3.0.0-p4

[Matthew Knepley]

On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 5:49 PM, David Fuentes <fuentesdt at gmail.com> wrote:

> In 3.0.0-p4
>
> PetscMalloc doesn't seem to return an error code if the requested memory
> wasn't allocated ? Is this correct ?
>
> I'm trying to allocate a dense matrix for which there was not enough memory
> and PetscMalloc is returning a null pointer but no errorcode to
> catch. which is causing seg faults later.


No, PETSc definitely returns an error code if the malloc fails.

  Matt


>
> thanks,
> df
>
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