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+// ---------------------------------------------------------------------
+//
+// Copyright (C) 2018 - 2020 by the deal.II authors
+//
+// This file is part of the deal.II library.
+//
+// The deal.II library is free software; you can use it, redistribute
+// it, and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General
+// Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
+// version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
+// The full text of the license can be found in the file LICENSE.md at
+// the top level directory of deal.II.
+//
+// ---------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+
+
+// DoFHandler<1,spacedim>::face_iterator objects could not be
+// default-constructed
+
+#include <deal.II/base/logstream.h>
+
+#include <deal.II/dofs/dof_accessor.h>
+#include <deal.II/dofs/dof_handler.h>
+
+#include <deal.II/fe/fe_q.h>
+
+#include <deal.II/grid/grid_generator.h>
+#include <deal.II/grid/tria.h>
+#include <deal.II/grid/tria_accessor.h>
+#include <deal.II/grid/tria_iterator.h>
+
+#include "../tests.h"
+
+
+
+template <int dim, int spacedim>
+void
+test()
+{
+ Triangulation<dim, spacedim> tria;
+ GridGenerator::hyper_cube(tria);
+ tria.refine_global(1);
+
+ FE_Q<dim, spacedim> fe(1);
+ DoFHandler<dim, spacedim> dof_handler(tria);
+ dof_handler.distribute_dofs(fe);
+
+ // The following call used to fail in the default constructor of the
+ // face iterator:
+ typename DoFHandler<dim, spacedim>::face_iterator x;
+
+
+ for (const auto &cell : dof_handler.active_cell_iterators())
+ // And as a consequence, this also used to fail because it first
+ // constructs an array of iterators and then puts values into
+ // them:
+ for (const auto &face : cell->face_iterators())
+ ;
+
+ deallog << "OK" << std::endl;
+}
+
+
+int
+main()
+{
+ initlog();
+
+ test<1, 1>();
+ test<1, 2>();
+ test<1, 3>();
+ test<2, 2>();
+ test<2, 3>();
+ test<3, 3>();
+}