----- "Barry Smith" <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> wrote: > 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
What does PetscObjectName() do??Generate a random name?? 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
