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# PCShellSetApplySymmetricLeft

Sets routine to use as left preconditioner (when the PC_SYMMETRIC is used).

### Synopsis

    #include "petscpc.h"
    PetscErrorCode  PCShellSetApplySymmetricLeft(PC pc,PetscErrorCode (*apply)(PC,Vec,Vec))

Logically Collective on PC

### Input Parameters

| pc | - the preconditioner context
| apply | - the application-provided left preconditioning routine

### Calling sequence of apply

       PetscErrorCode apply (PC pc,Vec xin,Vec xout)

| pc | - the preconditioner, get the application context with PCShellGetContext()
| xin | - input vector
| xout | - output vector

Notes: the function MUST return an error code of 0 on success and nonzero on failure.

### Keywords

PC, shell, set, apply, user-provided

### See Also

PCShellSetApply(), PCShellSetApplySymmetricLeft(), PCShellSetSetUp(), PCShellSetApplyTranspose(), PCShellSetContext()

Level:developer
Location: src/ksp/pc/impls/shell/shellpc.c
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