From: Wolfgang Bangerth Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2002 17:01:29 +0000 (+0000) Subject: deal_II_numbers. X-Git-Tag: v8.0.0~17560 X-Git-Url: https://gitweb.dealii.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=357f83febe788576c6d23de0a6359b89d2774602;p=dealii.git deal_II_numbers. git-svn-id: https://svn.dealii.org/trunk@6418 0785d39b-7218-0410-832d-ea1e28bc413d --- diff --git a/deal.II/doc/news/2002/c-3-4.html b/deal.II/doc/news/2002/c-3-4.html index 09a398dbfa..c3dfe4da4e 100644 --- a/deal.II/doc/news/2002/c-3-4.html +++ b/deal.II/doc/news/2002/c-3-4.html @@ -33,6 +33,19 @@ contributor's names are abbreviated by WB (Wolfgang Bangerth), GK

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  1. + New: Since math.h only defines the values of PI or E (as + M_PI and M_E) when certain defines are set (on + Linux, these are __USE_BSD or __USE_XOPEN), + portable programs usually defined these constants themselves. In + deal.II, this happened at 6 different places. To + avoid this in the future, base/config.h now exports a + namespace deal_II_numbers that defines these two, and a + number of other numerical constants. +
    + (WB 2002/09/12) +

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  2. New: base/config.h now exports the deal.II base directory through the