From: Wolfgang Bangerth Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 07:15:04 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Add docs. X-Git-Tag: v8.0.0~20020 X-Git-Url: https://gitweb.dealii.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=76cf14062d96ed3f1f5e8851aa3c0adee3019ad8;p=dealii.git Add docs. git-svn-id: https://svn.dealii.org/trunk@3412 0785d39b-7218-0410-832d-ea1e28bc413d --- diff --git a/deal.II/base/include/base/exceptions.h b/deal.II/base/include/base/exceptions.h index d772042e51..d34e2629bd 100644 --- a/deal.II/base/include/base/exceptions.h +++ b/deal.II/base/include/base/exceptions.h @@ -278,7 +278,8 @@ * * @author Wolfgang Bangerth, November 1997, extensions 1998 */ -class ExceptionBase : public exception { +class ExceptionBase : public exception +{ public: /** * Default constructor. @@ -362,6 +363,7 @@ class ExceptionBase : public exception { }; + /** * This routine does the main work for the * exception generation mechanism used in the @@ -375,7 +377,8 @@ void __IssueError_Assert (const char *file, const char *function, const char *cond, const char *exc_name, - exc e) { + exc e) +{ // Fill the fields of the exception object e.SetFields (file, line, function, cond, exc_name); cerr << "--------------------------------------------------------" @@ -391,6 +394,7 @@ void __IssueError_Assert (const char *file, }; + /** * This routine does the main work for the * exception generation mechanism used in the @@ -411,6 +415,7 @@ void __IssueError_Throw (const char *file, }; + #ifdef DEBUG //////////////////////////////////////// /** @@ -439,6 +444,7 @@ void __IssueError_Throw (const char *file, #endif //////////////////////////////////////// + /** * This is the main routine in the exception mechanism for run-time * mode error checking. It assert that a certain condition is @@ -466,6 +472,9 @@ void __IssueError_Throw (const char *file, { if (!(cond)) abort(); } #endif + + + /** * See the @p{ExceptionBase} class for a detailed description. * @@ -475,6 +484,8 @@ void __IssueError_Throw (const char *file, #define DeclException0(Exception0) \ class Exception0 : public ExceptionBase {}; + + /** * Declare an exception class with * one additional parameter. @@ -492,6 +503,8 @@ class Exception1 : public ExceptionBase { \ const type1 arg1; \ } + + /** * Declare an exception class with * two additional parameters. @@ -511,6 +524,8 @@ class Exception2 : public ExceptionBase { \ const type2 arg2; \ } + + /** * Declare an exception class with * three additional parameters. @@ -531,6 +546,8 @@ class Exception3 : public ExceptionBase { \ const type3 arg3; \ } + + /** * Declare an exception class with * four additional parameters. @@ -553,6 +570,8 @@ class Exception4 : public ExceptionBase { \ const type4 arg4; \ } + + /** * Declare an exception class with * five additional parameters. @@ -577,15 +596,123 @@ class Exception5 : public ExceptionBase { \ } + +/** + * Declare some exceptions that occur over and over. This way, you can + * simply use these exceptions, instead of having to declare them + * locally in your class. The namespace in which these exceptions are + * declared is later included into the global namespace by @p{using + * namespace StandardExceptions;}. + */ namespace StandardExceptions { + /** + * Exception denoting a division by + * zero. + */ DeclException0 (ExcDivideByZero); + + /** + * Exception denoting a part of the + * library or application program + * that has not yet been + * implemented. In many cases, this + * only indicates that there wasn't + * much need for something yet, not + * that this is difficult to + * implement. It is therefore quite + * worth the effort to take a look + * at the corresponding place and + * see whether it can be + * implemented without too much + * effort. + */ DeclException0 (ExcNotImplemented); + + /** + * This exception usually indicates + * that some condition which the + * programmer thinks must be + * satisfied at a certain point in + * an algorithm, is not + * fulfilled. This might be due to + * some programming error above, + * due to changes to the algorithm + * that did not preserve this + * assertion, or due to assumptions + * the programmer made that are not + * valid at all (i.e. the exception + * is thrown although there is no + * error here). Within the library, + * this exception is most often + * used when we write some kind of + * complicated algorithm and are + * not yet sure whether we got it + * right; we then put in assertions + * after each part of the algorithm + * that check for some conditions + * that should hold there, and + * throw an exception if they do + * not. + * + * We usually leave in these + * exceptions even after we are + * confident that the + * implementation is correct, since + * if someone later changes or + * extends the algorithm, these + * exceptions will indicate to him + * if he violates assumptions that + * are used later in the + * algorithm. Furthermore, it + * sometimes happens that an + * algorithm does not work in very + * rare corner cases. These cases + * will then be trapped sooner or + * later by the exception, so that + * the algorithm can then be fixed + * for these cases as well. + */ DeclException0 (ExcInternalError); + + /** + * This exception is used in + * functions that may not be called + * (i.e. in pure functions) but + * could not be declared pure since + * the class is intended to be used + * anyway, even though the + * respective function may only be + * called if a derived class is + * used. + */ DeclException0 (ExcPureFunctionCalled); + + /** + * This exception is used if some + * object is found uninitialized. + */ DeclException0 (ExcNotInitialized); - DeclException2 (ExcDimensionMismatch, int, int, + + /** + * This exception is raised + * whenever the sizes of two + * objects were assumed to be + * equal, but were not. + */ + DeclException2 (ExcDimensionMismatch, + int, int, << "Dimension " << arg1 << " not equal to " << arg2); + + /** + * This exception is one of the + * most often used ones, and + * indicates that an index is not + * within the expected range. For + * example, you might try to access + * an element of a vector which + * does not exist. + */ DeclException3 (ExcIndexRange, int, int, int, << "Index " << arg1 << " is not in [" << arg2 << "," << arg3 << "[");