On Nov 9, 2011, at 4:37 PM, Jed Brown wrote: > On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 14:49, mspieg <mspieg at ldeo.columbia.edu> wrote: > VecIsGhosted would be nice? > > Pushed to petsc-dev. The semantics are simply whether VecGhostGetLocalForm() > will succeed (which is normally what you want in the degenerate case of a > serial Vec which is equal to its ghosted representation). An alternative > would be to eliminate VecIsGhosted and just have VecGhostGetLocalForm > function return NULL if the Vec is not ghosted. I'm half-inclined to just do > that, but would like to hear comments first.
We don't usually do things that way hence I think a specific checking function is better. 3 seconds later I like the idea of returning null if it does not exist and not having the other checking function. Mark me down for the returning null approach. Barry
