On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 8:10 PM, Barry Smith <bsmith@mcs.anl.gov> wrote:

  size_t and friends  makes me nervous at _t

Good point, _t means type in way too many contexts. We have used _T in a type macro as well (PETSC_UINTPTR_T, MPIU_SIZE_T, ...).

Maybe _K is not so bad after all.
 

On Feb 16, 2013, at 8:08 PM, Jed Brown <jedbrown@mcs.anl.gov> wrote:

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> On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 7:55 PM, Barry Smith <bsmith@mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
>  _k   _t   ?
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> I think I'd prefer _t or _T. The "kernel" mnemonic is more about the intent of the code that usually goes in such a function than the semantics of that execution mode.