Dear PETSc-team,

I am using function PetscSFGetGraph in my program like
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call PetscSFGetGraph(sf,gnroots,gnleaves,gmine,gremote,ierr)
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In some cases, it works well. But in some cases, I encountered following error
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PETSC ERROR: Caught signal number 11 SEGV: Segmentation Violation, probably memory access out of range 

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I found it is due to the action of reading gmine, which is a fortran pointer point to an array. It is reasonable because PETSc manual tells me "if returned value is NULL, it means leaves are in contiguous storage". The problem is that I cannot find if gmine is a null pointer. 

1)  I cannot use "if (gmine==PETSC_NULL_INTEGER)" because my intel compiler would return a compile error "A scalar-valued expression is required in this context"

2)  When using standard style of checking a null pointer in fortran, "associated(gmine)", it returns "T". Even in cases such action of "print *, gmine(1)" would give rise to above Segmentation Violation error.

Is there any means to check the NULL pointer in Fortran in above cases.

Many thanks,

Yuan