On Tue 21. Apr 2020 at 16:47, Matthew Knepley <[email protected]> wrote:

> You are overwriting memory somewhere. The prints just move it around. I
> suggest running with valgrind.
>

Matt is right. However, judging by the code snippet I bet all the arrays in
question are statically allocated, thus valgrind may be of somewhat limited
use.

If you send the entire function, or all the related pieces of code, someone
in the list might spot the error.

Thanks
Dave




>   Thanks,
>
>     Matt
>
> On Tue, Apr 21, 2020 at 10:44 AM Kaushik Vijaykumar <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> Hello group,
>>
>> I have been trying to navigate a weird error that I have found in my FEA
>> code that I am developing using PetSc. The error occurs when, i execute a
>> call to stiffness generation of a Tetrahederal element. The code returns an
>> memory error if I don't print the following statements in the function,
>> (see the ierr print statements below):
>>
>> for (i1=1; i1<4; i1++)  // Loop 6b
>>       {
>>         for (j1=1; j1<4; j1++) // Loop 7b
>>       {
>>       for (k1=1; k1<4; k1++) // Loop 8
>> {
>>         for (l1=1; l1<4; l1++) // Loop 9
>> {
>>   s[ii1+i1-1][jj1+j1-1] =
>> s[ii1+i1-1][jj1+j1-1]+C4[i1][k1][j1][l1]*w[k1][l1]*weight;
>>   ierr = PetscFPrintf(PETSC_COMM_WORLD,outfile,"C4 %f
>> \n",C4[i1][k1][j1][l1]);CHKERRQ(ierr);
>>   ierr = PetscFPrintf(PETSC_COMM_WORLD,outfile,"w %f
>> \n",w[k1][l1]);CHKERRQ(ierr);
>>   ierr = PetscFPrintf(PETSC_COMM_WORLD,outfile,"weight %f
>> \n",weight);CHKERRQ(ierr);
>> }   // Loop 9
>> }  // Loop 8
>>       } // Loop 7b
>>         } // Loop 6b
>>
>>
>> Any help on this is really appreciated.
>>
>> Thanks
>> Kaushik
>>
>
>
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