[petsc-users] PetscBag Question

[Matthew Knepley]

On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 6:19 PM, Daniel Christian Weflen <
Daniel.Weflen at colorado.edu> wrote:

> I have a question about PetscBagCreate (the documentation for which can be
> found here [1]).
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> The documentation says that the size of the struct cannot be larger than a
> PetscInt, which is 4 bytes. Is this referring to the entire struct, or just
> a pointer to it?
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> If the size of the struct itself cannot be larger than one PetscInt, what
> exactly is are PetscBags supposed to do?
>

What this means is that you cannot have a struct bigger than 2G, since we
use an integer to hold the size in bytes.

   Matt


> -Dan
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> [1] http://www.mcs.anl.gov/petsc/**petsc-current/docs/**manualpages/Sys/**
> PetscBagCreate.html#**PetscBagCreate<http://www.mcs.anl.gov/petsc/petsc-current/docs/manualpages/Sys/PetscBagCreate.html#PetscBagCreate>
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