[petsc-users] Is it possible to use global variables in Petsc code?

[Li, Zhisong (lizs)]

 Hi, Petsc Team,

I wonder if we can utilize a global variable when using PETSc, such as a declaration and definition in the main function:

extern PetscScalar x, y, z;
    x = 1.0;

This should be a regular usage in ANSI C and will help a lot when we have user-defined functions. If it can work, then it will easily replace those functions like DAGetInfo( ) and save running time. But I don't see any examples of using this in PETSc before. And I've tried this but it doesn't work or cannot pass the compiling check.


Thank you.


Zhisong Li
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