[ET Trac] [Einstein Toolkit] #1986: this compared to NULL in CarpetLib

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#1986: this compared to NULL in CarpetLib
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  Reporter:  rhaas   |       Owner:  eschnett           
      Type:  defect  |      Status:  reopened           
  Priority:  minor   |   Milestone:                     
 Component:  Carpet  |     Version:  development version
Resolution:          |    Keywords:                     
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Comment (by rhaas):

 No,
 {{{
 this ? cent : src->cent
 }}}
 is what the current (in master) code does and that gives the "this
 compared to NULL warning". The underlying issue is using a NULL this
 pointer to call member functions. In the case of PeriodicCarpet this
 happens when doing dst->copy_from(...) with a NULL dst when dst is not a
 local component.

 I had a fix for that but it involved calling new_typed_data() when dst
 would otherwise be NULL. Initially the thought was that new_typed_data()
 may be too expensive. I am no longer so sure since transfer_from itself
 already creates a new gdata for its buf object all the time. I am however
 now working on a (not thread safe...) replacement that uses a single
 typed_data for all such occurrences.

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