PetscMalloc petsc-3.0.0-p4

[Lisandro Dalcin]

1) Which system are you running on?

2) are you completely sure BOTH things happens, I mean... that malloc
returns null AND the error code is zero?


On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 7:49 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.
>
>
>
> thanks,
> df
>
>



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