Good idea. But why just for Matrices, why not for all objects? If no name is set do we use PetscObjectName() to generate one at that time or only print a name if it already has one (I lean toward that).
I'll start on this. Barry On Sep 29, 2010, at 2:28 PM, Shri wrote: > Is there a way to print the matrix name so that -mat_view_info prints it out. > > Instead of > > Matrix Object: > type=mpiaij, rows=200, cols=200 > total: nonzeros=40000, allocated nonzeros=40000 > total number of mallocs used during MatSetVal > > it should print > > Matrix Object: <MATRIX_NAME> > type=mpiaij, rows=200, cols=200 > total: nonzeros=40000, allocated nonzeros=40000 > total number of mallocs used during MatSetVal > > It'll be nice to have the matrix name printed out cause sometimes it gets > confusing when there are a lot of matrices you are working with. > Either the user can set a name and it could be printed out in mat_view_info > or even better if in some way the variable name can be used directly. > > What do you think? > > Shri
