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# PetscObjectState

integer state for a PetscObject

### Notes

Object state is always-increasing and (for objects that track state) can be used to determine if an object has changed since the last time you interacted with it. It is 64-bit so that it will not overflow for a very long time.

### See Also

PetscObjectId, PetscObjectStateGet(), PetscObjectStateIncrease(), PetscObjectStateSet()

### Level

developer

### Location

include/petscsys.h
Index of all Sys routines
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