[petsc-users] Typecasting PetscReal and PetscScalar before doing arithmetic?

[Jed Brown]

On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 19:04, Gaurish Telang <gaurish108 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have some variables in a program some of which are of type PetscReal and
> some of the type PetscScalar. Is it safe doing arithmetic with these
> variables without doing any explicit type casting?


Yes, but the result will have type PetscScalar unless you use
PetscRealPart() or similar.
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