On Dec 21, 2011, at 7:11 PM, Jed Brown wrote: > On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 19:06, Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> wrote: > I don't get it. Won't that dynamic function have the ugly hardwired list in > it? For example SNESSolverISVI(SNES,PetscBool*); which will know which are > vi solvers. > > No, each VI solver would > > PetscObjectComposeFunctionDynamic((PetscObject)snes,"SNESVISetVariableBounds_C","SNESVISetVariableBounds_All",SNESVISetVariableBounds_All); > > then SNESVISetVariableBounds would attempt to call this dynamically. If it > failed, it would SNESSetType(snes,SNESVIRS) and PetscUseMethod().
You could do this. Sounds reasonable. Barry When are we going to make our lives easier by switching to C++ :-)
