That's just a typo on my part. I'm rewriting the whole SA ball of wax, but I can push a quicker fix for this too, but, unfortunately, I won't be able to do that untill next Monday.
Dmitry. On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 10:09 PM, Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> wrote: > > ? Some declarations of the form > > extern PetscErrorCode SAAddData(SA arr, const PetscInt len, const PetscInt > *ia, const PetscScalar *wa, const PetscInt *ja); > > have crept into PETSc. ?const PetscInt len > > Do we want to have such beasties? What purpose do they serve? > > My understanding is that it is contaminating the entire code (because of the > extern PetscErrorCode SAAddData(SA arr, const PetscInt len, const PetscInt > *ia, const PetscScalar *wa, const PetscInt *ja); with the knowledge that > internally the subroutine never changes the value of the stack variable > function which is the opposite of encapsulation. What am I missing? Is this > just stupid C syntax, is there a better way? > > ? Thanks > > ? ?Barry > >
