http://scicomp.stackexchange.com/questions/2303/petscs-xxxsetxxx-methods-own-pointer-or-copy-values
My understanding is that Set for the most part acts like a pass-by-reference, and my answer reflects that ( http://scicomp.stackexchange.com/a/2311/9) If there's a better answer than that, Jed or Matt should post it or fix mine :) A -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.mcs.anl.gov/pipermail/petsc-dev/attachments/20120523/a73078fe/attachment.html>