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

[Barry Smith]

On Apr 17, 2013, at 11:35 AM, Michael Povolotskyi <mpovolot at purdue.edu> wrote:

> 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.

   Return a pointer to the existing memory.

   Barry

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> Thank you.
> Michael.
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