Thanks Alexander. That totally makes sense now. Best, Mohamad
On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 1:23 AM, Alexander Grayver <agrayver at gfz-potsdam.de>wrote: > ** > There is a header in the beginning of the file. The info in the header > defines which object type is stored and its dimensions. > The size of the header can vary depending on the stored object > (Vec,Mat,etc) and type you use for indices (int32,int64). > > For Vec object and int32 you have one integer defining the code of the Vec > object and another vector size. That sums up to 8 extra bytes. > > > On 19.01.2012 09:20, Mohamad M. Nasr-Azadani wrote: > > Hi guys, > > I use VecView() in conjunction with PetscViewerBinaryOpen() > to write the binary data associated with a 3D data obtained from DA > structured arrays. > I noticed that on my machine, the size of the file is 8 bytes bigger > than the size of the data. > Could someone tell me where that extra 8 byte is stored and how it is > going help? > > best > Mohamad > * > * > > > > -- > Regards, > Alexander > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.mcs.anl.gov/pipermail/petsc-users/attachments/20120119/afc81b8e/attachment.htm>
