On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 5:24 PM, Jed Brown <jed at 59a2.org> wrote: > Barry Smith wrote: >> >> On May 7, 2009, at 3:00 PM, Lisandro Dalcin wrote: > >>> 2) What should happen if a user pass BOTH options -snes_mf and >>> -snes_mf_operators? Error? One of them should overrides the other? >> >> ? ?An error. > > The tricky part here is, suppose the user wants to use one of these by > default, so they put it in a .petscrc or -options_file. ?Now they will > get an error if they try to change it on the command line.
Although I did not mention it, that was one of the reason I proposed to add a call for doing this in code... >?Is there a reasonable way to use whichever option comes last? AFAIK, no... > Or just have > -snes_mf -snes_mf_type {...} so that the options system enforces that > there is only one way to do it. ?-snes_mf_operator -pc_type none is > equivalent anyway. > Not, it is not equivalent... -snes_mf_operator -pc_type none will still make a (pointless) call to user's Jacobian routine. -- Lisandro Dalc?n --------------- Centro Internacional de M?todos Computacionales en Ingenier?a (CIMEC) Instituto de Desarrollo Tecnol?gico para la Industria Qu?mica (INTEC) Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cient?ficas y T?cnicas (CONICET) PTLC - G?emes 3450, (3000) Santa Fe, Argentina Tel/Fax: +54-(0)342-451.1594