]> https://gitweb.dealii.org/ - dealii.git/commitdiff
Fix a problem with cygwin.
authorWolfgang Bangerth <bangerth@math.tamu.edu>
Wed, 2 Mar 2005 21:11:31 +0000 (21:11 +0000)
committerWolfgang Bangerth <bangerth@math.tamu.edu>
Wed, 2 Mar 2005 21:11:31 +0000 (21:11 +0000)
git-svn-id: https://svn.dealii.org/trunk@9954 0785d39b-7218-0410-832d-ea1e28bc413d

deal.II/doc/news/changes.html

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@@ -32,6 +32,19 @@ contributor's names are abbreviated by WB (Wolfgang Bangerth), GK
 <h3>General</h3>
 
 <ol>
+  <li> <p>
+       Fixed: On certain systems running CygWin, a call to
+       <code>gethostname()</code> could cause deal.II to hang. The reason
+       seems to be that the call disables long double computations which
+       revert to just double precision. This then leads to an endless loop in
+       computing weights for quadrature points because the convergence
+       criterion cannot be reached with simple double precision. This is now
+       fixed by disabling the call to <code>gethostname()</code> on these
+       systems.
+       <br> 
+       (Ralf B. Schulz, WB, 2005/03/02)
+       </p>
+
   <li> <p>
        Fixed: The step-16 example program wasn't listed in the
        navigation bar of the  tutorial section, although it was in the

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