On 03/25/2015 02:06 PM, Matthew Knepley wrote:
On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 1:03 PM, Eric Chamberland
<[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:

    Hi,

    while looking for where in the world do I insert the (135,9) entry
    in my matrix, I have discovered that the column # shown is wrong in
    parallel!


We have talked about this before. It is certainly not easy. The error is
given by the embedded serial matrix, whereas you want
the parallel column. It would be good if we could restructure to give
that back.

Okay!!!  I didn't knew that...

Would it be possible, in parallel, to have the column number marked by a ****** beside it with a footnote like "this is not the column number" in the error message? How can it help *me* to have this wrong number? (just wasted a few hours on this this morning....)

Worded differently: if you take the time to write a message for the end user, it is to help the programmer right? But what does it worth if it does not help, worst, if it mislead the programmer???

Ok, that's it for my 0.5cent...

Thanks for the answer,

Eric


   Thanks,

       Matt

    I am using PETsc 3.5.3.

    The full error message is:

    [0]PETSC ERROR: MatSetValues_MPIAIJ() line 564 in
    /home/mefpp_ericc/petsc-3.5.3/__src/mat/impls/aij/mpi/mpiaij.c
    Inserting a new nonzero (135, 9) into matrix

    This line code is a call to a #defined macro:

    MatSetValues_SeqAIJ_B_Private(__row,col,value,addv);

    where the "col" parameter is not equal to "in[j]"!!!

    in gdb, printing "in[j]" gave me:

    print in[j]
    $6 = 537

    while "col" is:

    print col
    $7 = 9

    So, I expected to have a message telling me that (135,537) and not
    (135,9) is a new entry matrix!!!

    Would it be a big work to fix this so that the col # displayed is
    correct?

    Thanks!

    Eric




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