Merge branch 'stefanozampini/useless-cast' into 'main'

Remove useless cast

See merge request petsc/petsc!7894

brain dead fixes for useless casts in examples

Merge branch 'barry/2024-07-01/fix-petscoptionsgetviewer' into 'main'

The use case of PetscOptionsGetViewer() has evolved to no longer be the get/restore model

See merge request petsc/petsc!7667

The use case of PetscOptionsGetViewer() has evolved to no longer be the get/restore model

Hence the code needs to be refactored

Introduce PetscCallNull() and PetscCallMPINull() to simplify PETSC_VI

The use case of PetscOptionsGetViewer() has evolved to no longer be the get/restore model

Hence the code needs to be refactored

Introduce PetscCallNull() and PetscCallMPINull() to simplify PETSC_VIEWER_XXXX_() routines

Reported-by: James Wright
Thanks-to: Jeremy L Thompson

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Merge branch 'barry/2023-11-21/fix-thread-safety-petscoptionsgetviewer' into 'main'

Fix PetscOptionsGetViewer() so it works in a thread-safe way

See merge request petsc/petsc!7047

Fix PetscOptionsGetViewer() so it works in a thread-safe way

When PetscOptionsGetViewer() returns, for example, PETSC_VIEWER_STDOUT_SELF the same object is shared
by all threads that call PetscOptio

Fix PetscOptionsGetViewer() so it works in a thread-safe way

When PetscOptionsGetViewer() returns, for example, PETSC_VIEWER_STDOUT_SELF the same object is shared
by all threads that call PetscOptionsGetViewer(). In the previous code PetscObjectReference() and
dereference (via PetscViewerDestroy() where called on the viewer by multiple threads after the viewer
was accessed thus corrupting the object.

This branch introduces a PetscOptionsRestoreViewer() that allows not doing the referencing and dereferencing
on persistant viewers, thus removing the specific race condition above.

Other possible solutions include

Use a lock on each PetscObjectReference/Dereference() just in case they are shared. Could be time consuming so one
could mark each object as either threadshared or independent and only do the locks on threadshared objects. This lowers
the cost but would require more extensive changes to PETSc infrastructure. And I do not know if this shared/not shared model
is what we need in the long run, though it might be.

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Merge branch 'tisaac/feature-log-handler' into 'main'

Deglobalize logging into PetscLogHandler and PetscLogState

See merge request petsc/petsc!6709

PetscViewer: Add PetscOptionsGetViewers() for multiple viewers

- Add src/sys/classes/viewer/tests/ex7.c to test this function