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# SNESSetObjective

Sets the objective function minimized by some of the SNES linesearch methods.

### Synopsis

    PetscErrorCode  SNESSetObjective(SNES snes,PetscErrorCode (*obj)(SNES,Vec,PetscReal*,void*),void *ctx)

Logically Collective on SNES

### Input Parameters

| snes | - the SNES context
| obj | - objective evaluation routine; see SNESObjectiveFunction for details
| ctx | - [optional] user-defined context for private data for the function evaluation routine (may be NULL)

Note: This is not used in the SNESLINESEARCHCP line search.

If not provided then this defaults to the two norm of the function evaluation (set with SNESSetFunction())

### Keywords

SNES, nonlinear, set, objective

### See Also

SNESGetObjective(), SNESComputeObjective(), SNESSetFunction(), SNESSetJacobian(), SNESObjectiveFunction

### Level

intermediate

### Location

src/snes/interface/snesob.c
Index of all SNES routines
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Index of all manual pages