http://petsc.cs.iit.edu/petsc/petsc-dev/rev/ecbd2dcad71a Note that there are a couple other places where keyvals are created (with no way to free them). Does it make sense to put those fields into this one? Is there a reason that petscinitialize_() duplicates much of PetscInitialize()? Seems like we ought to have the common stuff in a PetscInitialize_Private(). Jed