> On Feb 8, 2019, at 2:37 PM, Matthew Knepley <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Feb 8, 2019 at 6:30 AM Stefano Zampini via petsc-dev 
> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> I don’t understand the need of these checks (tacky and incomplete…, as per 
> the comment) 
> 
> https://bitbucket.org/petsc/petsc/src/75aeaa18afd73be7f3020f94b788241b9e0ba3d7/src/dm/impls/shell/dmshell.c#lines-197
>  
> <https://bitbucket.org/petsc/petsc/src/75aeaa18afd73be7f3020f94b788241b9e0ba3d7/src/dm/impls/shell/dmshell.c#lines-197>
> 
> Why are these checks needed? I’m inclined to remove these lines, but I would 
> like some comments before doing it.
> 
> This even looks wrong to me. Why would we accept a type different from the 
> actual matrix type?
> 

The only reason I could think of is

DMSetMatType(shell,type1);
DMCreateMatrix(shell,&A);
DMSetMatType(shell,type2);
DMCreateMatrix(shell,&B); // B is type1, not type2

>    Matt
> 
> -- 
> 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
> 
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