From: Lukas Korous <lukas.korous@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2015 19:13:53 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: Add comments regarding the MSVC fixes.
X-Git-Tag: v8.4.0-rc2~617^2
X-Git-Url: https://gitweb.dealii.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=57b7e7d9ed70c9b64ba3c6d97a9234f329d61721;p=dealii.git

Add comments regarding the MSVC fixes.
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diff --git a/include/deal.II/fe/fe_face.h b/include/deal.II/fe/fe_face.h
index dd51b9343f..5f2f55f709 100644
--- a/include/deal.II/fe/fe_face.h
+++ b/include/deal.II/fe/fe_face.h
@@ -227,6 +227,10 @@ public:
   get_constant_modes () const;
 
 protected:
+  /**
+  NOTE: The following functions have their definitions inlined into the class declaration
+    * because we otherwise run into a compiler error with MS Visual Studio.
+     */
   virtual
   typename FiniteElement<1,spacedim>::InternalDataBase *
   get_data (const UpdateFlags,
diff --git a/include/deal.II/fe/fe_poly.h b/include/deal.II/fe/fe_poly.h
index fb12ed105a..4f90876b05 100644
--- a/include/deal.II/fe/fe_poly.h
+++ b/include/deal.II/fe/fe_poly.h
@@ -163,7 +163,10 @@ public:
                                                    const unsigned int component) const;
 
 protected:
-
+  /**
+  NOTE: The following function has its definition inlined into the class declaration
+    * because we otherwise run into a compiler error with MS Visual Studio.
+    */
   virtual
   typename FiniteElement<dim,spacedim>::InternalDataBase *
   get_data(const UpdateFlags update_flags,
diff --git a/include/deal.II/fe/fe_poly_face.h b/include/deal.II/fe/fe_poly_face.h
index 628a2d4fff..3f7865eb03 100644
--- a/include/deal.II/fe/fe_poly_face.h
+++ b/include/deal.II/fe/fe_poly_face.h
@@ -73,7 +73,10 @@ public:
   unsigned int get_degree () const;
 
 protected:
-
+  /**
+  NOTE: The following functions have their definitions inlined into the class declaration
+    * because we otherwise run into a compiler error with MS Visual Studio.
+     */
   virtual
   typename FiniteElement<dim,spacedim>::InternalDataBase *
   get_data (const UpdateFlags,
diff --git a/include/deal.II/fe/fe_poly_tensor.h b/include/deal.II/fe/fe_poly_tensor.h
index 63b2e4b6e5..5c05271fb5 100644
--- a/include/deal.II/fe/fe_poly_tensor.h
+++ b/include/deal.II/fe/fe_poly_tensor.h
@@ -174,7 +174,10 @@ protected:
    * cell to the mesh cell.
    */
   MappingType mapping_type;
-
+  /**
+  NOTE: The following function has its definition inlined into the class declaration
+    * because we otherwise run into a compiler error with MS Visual Studio.
+    */
   virtual
   typename FiniteElement<dim,spacedim>::InternalDataBase *
   get_data(const UpdateFlags update_flags,