Re: [petsc-users] Is xout always already zero'ed when being called back on PCShellSetApply ?

[Matthew Knepley]

On Sun, May 21, 2017 at 11:11 AM, Franck Houssen <franck.hous...@inria.fr>
wrote:

> When using http://www.mcs.anl.gov/petsc/petsc-current/docs/manualpages/PC/
> PCShellSetApply.html, do I have the guaranty that xout from "
> PetscErrorCode
> <http://www.mcs.anl.gov/petsc/petsc-current/docs/manualpages/Sys/PetscErrorCode.html#PetscErrorCode>
> apply (PC
> <http://www.mcs.anl.gov/petsc/petsc-current/docs/manualpages/PC/PC.html#PC>
> pc,Vec
> <http://www.mcs.anl.gov/petsc/petsc-current/docs/manualpages/Vec/Vec.html#Vec>
> xin,Vec
> <http://www.mcs.anl.gov/petsc/petsc-current/docs/manualpages/Vec/Vec.html#Vec>
> xout)" has always been previously filled with zeros ?
> I may have to fill xout by blocks (I would += several possibly overlapping
> blocks: I need to make sure xout is first filled with zero to get the
> correct result).
>

No, we do not initialize the output vector. Yo ucan call VecSet(xout, 0.0);

  Thanks,

    Matt


> Franck
>



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