[petsc-users] [MEF-QUAR] MatGetArray question

[Michael Povolotskyi]

Dear Petsc developers,
Does the function MatGetArray allocates additional memory, or it simply 
returns a pointer to the existing memory?
I'm talking about an MPI dense matrix.

Thank you.
Michael.

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