[petsc-users] Binary format in real vs. complex scalar type configurations

Dear fellows, I hope this message finds you safe and well. I have a complex-valued matrix and its real/imaginary components in binary format . They were extracted from a solver that only works with "scalar-type=complex" configuration. I am getting weird results when I load them into a small test program that's configured with "scalar-type=real", but I believe this is expected. At the end of the day, I would like to have both real and imaginary components as real-valued matrices. Is it possible to do it? I want to test preconditioners that are tailored for this sort of problem. Regards, Frederico.