[petsc-users] a simple question about options left

Xiangdong Liang xdliang at gmail.com
Wed Nov 23 22:51:36 CST 2011


Thanks, Barry! Yes, I do have my own command line arguments -1 and 1.
Good to know that it's safe to ignore the warning.

Xiangdong

On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 11:30 PM, Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
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> On Nov 23, 2011, at 10:26 PM, Xiangdong Liang wrote:
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>> Hello everyone,
>>
>> When I compile my program with debug mode and ran it, I got
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>> WARNING! There are options you set that were not used!
>> WARNING! could be spelling mistake, etc!
>> Option left: name:-1 value: -1
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>   You must have some of your own command line arguments like for example -1 -1 and our argument processing is not smart enough to ignore it. I can reproduce it and will see if there is any reasonable way for us to eliminate the message in this case.
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>    It is safe to ignore.
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>
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>> I even got the warning if I do not provide any options. What's the option left?
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>> However, such warning about the option left is gone if I compile my
>> program in arch-opt mode.  Thanks.
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>   We don't print the warning with optimized code.
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>>
>> Xiangdong
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