On Sun, May 17, 2015 at 11:30 PM, Marco Zocca <[email protected]> wrote:
> What does this declaration in petscsys.h do?
>
> What type and value does PETSC_COMM_WORLD expand to?
>
The type is MPI_Comm. If you mean what basic type, that is up to the MPI
implementation. However, I think you can assume that it fits in a (void *).
The value is obtained at runtime from MPI_Comm_dup or from user input.
Thanks,
Matt
> #define PETSC_EXTERN extern PETSC_VISIBILITY_PUBLIC
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> PETSC_EXTERN MPI_Comm PETSC_COMM_WORLD;
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>
> Thank you in advance,
> Marco
>
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