On Feb 8, 2011, at 4:12 PM, Aron Ahmadia wrote:

link to the source of DMCreateGlobalVector from http://www.mcs.anl.gov/petsc/petsc-as/snapshots/petsc-dev/docs/manualpages/D...

goes to a broken url: http://www.mcs.anl.gov/petsc/petsc-as/snapshots/petsc-dev/src/dm/da/interfac...

the functional url is: http://www.mcs.anl.gov/petsc/petsc-as/snapshots/petsc-dev/src/dm/interface/d...

Satish, Something is seriously wrong with the development version of the online docs. The old location http://www.mcs.anl.gov/petsc/petsc-as/snapshots/petsc-dev/src/dm/da/interfac... was changed months ago. Is something not being properly rebuilt?

Also, this really annoys me: 234: PetscErrorCode DMCreateGlobalVector(DM dm,Vec *vec) 235: {

239: (*dm->ops->createglobalvector)(dm,vec);

240: return (0);

241: } I went through the documentation to find out how DMCreateGlobalVector is implemented. What's the mnemonic for finding the definition of the above function (or I guess, multiple definitions since this appears to be a 'virtual function' in C). A

You should use Emacs etags to do this kind of thing. See http://www.mcs.anl.gov/petsc/petsc-as/snapshots/petsc-dev/docs/manual.pdf section 13.8 To find all the implementations use meta . functionname then meta 0 meta . to go to the next etc etc. No pain. Barry