I also happened to stumble across this yesterday. Is the length restriction for the default printer (l assume from the array of 8*1024 chars in PetscVFPrintfDefault() ) intended behavior to be documented, or a bug to be fixed?
2018-04-12 2:16 GMT+02:00 Rongliang Chen <[email protected]>: > Thanks Barry. I found petsc-3.6 and older versions did not have this > restriction. > > Best, > Rongliang > > > On 04/12/2018 07:22 AM, Smith, Barry F. wrote: > >> Yes, PetscPrintf() and related functions have a maximum string length >> of about 8000 characters. >> >> Barry >> >> >> On Apr 11, 2018, at 6:17 PM, Rongliang Chen <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>> Dear All, >>> >>> >>> When I tried to print a long string using PetscPrintf() I found that it >>> truncated the string. Attached is a simple example for this (run with >>> single processor). I used PetscPrintf() and printf() to print the same >>> string and the printf() seems OK. I am using petsc-3.8.4. >>> >>> >>> Best, >>> >>> Rongliang >>> >>> <ex111.c> >>> >> > >
