[petsc-users] VecValid

[Matthew Knepley]

On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 9:20 PM, Sanjay Govindjee <s_g at berkeley.edu> wrote:

> We have some code that has worked up through petsc-3.1 and we are in the
> process of updating it to petsc-3.2.
>
> One thing that I can not find mentioned in the change logs (looking all
> the way back to petsc-2.1.0) or the FAQs is the elimination of the VecValid
> and MatValid tests.
>

In C, this is now the macro PetscValidHeaderSpecific(). This check now
happens in every function call. What
logic would need to look for a corrupt Vec beyond CHKERRQ?

  Thanks,

      Matt


> We used to perform operations like:
>
>      call VecValid(xvec, chk, ierr)
>
>      if(chk .eqv. PETSC_FALSE) then
>                call VecCreate        (PETSC_COMM_WORLD, xvec, ierr)
>                call VecSetSizes      (xvec, numpeq, PETSC_DECIDE, ierr)
>                call VecSetFromOptions(xvec, ierr)
>      else
>        ....
>      endif
>
> But it seems VecValid and MatValid have been eliminated.  Is there a
> reason for this?  or have
> I made a mistake?  Is there a replacement test for invalid Vec and Mat
> pointers?
>
> -sanjay
>
>


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