From: Wolfgang Bangerth <bangerth@colostate.edu>
Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2019 17:58:22 +0000 (-0600)
Subject: Augment documentation in one place.
X-Git-Tag: v9.2.0-rc1~1197^2
X-Git-Url: https://gitweb.dealii.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=a2a07b1e791c480ec47c494582d4516f1b33d47f;p=dealii.git

Augment documentation in one place.
---

diff --git a/include/deal.II/fe/fe_poly_tensor.h b/include/deal.II/fe/fe_poly_tensor.h
index 1fa69c4156..724e0534f7 100644
--- a/include/deal.II/fe/fe_poly_tensor.h
+++ b/include/deal.II/fe/fe_poly_tensor.h
@@ -148,7 +148,10 @@ class FE_PolyTensor : public FiniteElement<dim, spacedim>
 {
 public:
   /**
-   * Constructor.
+   * Constructor. This constructor does a deep copy of the polynomials
+   * object via the TensorPolynomialsBase::clone() function and stores
+   * a pointer to the copy. As a consequence, the calling site can
+   * simply pass a temporary object as the first argument.
    */
   FE_PolyTensor(const TensorPolynomialsBase<dim> &polynomials,
                 const FiniteElementData<dim> &    fe_data,