On Thu, Mar 22, 2018 at 6:15 AM, Lisandro Dalcin <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 22 March 2018 at 12:51, Matthew Knepley <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 22, 2018 at 3:44 AM, Lisandro Dalcin <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> > >> > >> ftp://ftp.mcs.anl.gov/pub/petsc/nightlylogs/archive/ > 2018/03/21/examples_master_arch-linux-cxx-cmplx-pkgs-64idx_churn.log > >> > >> The thing is, PETSc does not currently have a way of mapping a plain C > >> `int` type to a PETSc datatype. I'm wiling to take the required work > >> to fix this issue. > > > > > > Is this not what PetscMPIInt is for? > > > > No, not at all, PetscMPIInt it not even mentioned in the PetscDatatype > enumeration. The whole PetscDatatype this is kind of messy, and fixing > it should take some time, and this for sure will no make my h-index > explode, right?. For now, mapping MPI_INT -> PETSC_ENUM seems > workaround the issue just fine. > What I meant was, we already have a typedef 'PetscMPIInt' which is supposed to reproduce MPI_INT, so why not add PETSC_MPI_INT to the PetscDataTypes rather than map MPI_INT to PetscEnum? Thanks, Matt > -- > Lisandro Dalcin > ============ > Research Scientist > Computer, Electrical and Mathematical Sciences & Engineering (CEMSE) > Extreme Computing Research Center (ECRC) > King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) > http://ecrc.kaust.edu.sa/ > > 4700 King Abdullah University of Science and Technology > al-Khawarizmi Bldg (Bldg 1), Office # 0109 > Thuwal 23955-6900, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia > http://www.kaust.edu.sa > > Office Phone: +966 12 808-0459 > -- What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their experiments lead. -- Norbert Wiener https://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~knepley/ <http://www.caam.rice.edu/~mk51/>
