[petsc-users] a simple question about options left

Satish Balay balay at mcs.anl.gov
Thu Nov 24 10:20:43 CST 2011


You can use PetscOptionsGetInt() for your own command line arguments
aswell..

Satish


On Wed, 23 Nov 2011, Xiangdong Liang wrote:

> 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:
> >
> > On Nov 23, 2011, at 10:26 PM, Xiangdong Liang wrote:
> >
> >> Hello everyone,
> >>
> >> When I compile my program with debug mode and ran it, I got
> >>
> >> WARNING! There are options you set that were not used!
> >> WARNING! could be spelling mistake, etc!
> >> Option left: name:-1 value: -1
> >
> >   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.
> >
> >    It is safe to ignore.
> >
> >
> >>
> >> I even got the warning if I do not provide any options. What's the option left?
> >>
> >> However, such warning about the option left is gone if I compile my
> >> program in arch-opt mode.  Thanks.
> >
> >   We don't print the warning with optimized code.
> >
> >>
> >> Xiangdong
> >
> >
> 


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