From: bangerth <bangerth@0785d39b-7218-0410-832d-ea1e28bc413d>
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2014 01:53:52 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Make two member variables private. Improve documentation of the enums that are used... 
X-Git-Url: https://gitweb.dealii.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=bb781cefa648b386912b49197f03c7ad9909a604;p=dealii-svn.git

Make two member variables private. Improve documentation of the enums that are used for these variables. Further improve documentation in a couple of places.

git-svn-id: https://svn.dealii.org/trunk@32851 0785d39b-7218-0410-832d-ea1e28bc413d
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diff --git a/deal.II/include/deal.II/base/timer.h b/deal.II/include/deal.II/base/timer.h
index c64013c639..98c6fe41dd 100644
--- a/deal.II/include/deal.II/base/timer.h
+++ b/deal.II/include/deal.II/base/timer.h
@@ -410,9 +410,8 @@ public:
   };
 
   /**
-   * Sets whether to generate output every
-   * time we exit a section, just in the
-   * end, both, or never.
+   * An enumeration data type that describes whether to generate output every
+   * time we exit a section, just in the end, both, or never.
    */
   enum OutputFrequency
   {
@@ -420,36 +419,40 @@ public:
     summary,
     every_call_and_summary,
     never
-  }
-  output_frequency;
+  };
 
   /**
-   * Sets whether to show CPU times, wall
-   * times, or both CPU and wall times.
+   * An enumeration data type that describes whether to show CPU times, wall
+   * times, or both CPU and wall times whenever we generate output.
    */
   enum OutputType
   {
     cpu_times,
     wall_times,
     cpu_and_wall_times
-  }
-  output_type;
+  };
 
   /**
-   * Constructor. Output is written to the stream (of type std::ostream)
-   * given as first argument. The second and third arguments denote how
-   * often output is to be generated and what kind of timing the output
-   * should represent (CPU or wall time).
+   * Constructor.
+   *
+   * @param stream The stream (of type std::ostream) to which output is written.
+   * @param output_frequency A variable indicating when output is to be written
+   *   to the given stream.
+   * @param output_type A variable indicating what kind of timing the output
+   *   should represent (CPU or wall time).
    */
   TimerOutput (std::ostream              &stream,
                const enum OutputFrequency output_frequency,
                const enum OutputType      output_type);
 
   /**
-   * Constructor. Output is written to the stream (of type ConditionalOstream)
-   * given as first argument. The second and third arguments denote how
-   * often output is to be generated and what kind of timing the output
-   * should represent (CPU or wall time).
+   * Constructor.
+   *
+   * @param stream The stream (of type ConditionalOstream) to which output is written.
+   * @param output_frequency A variable indicating when output is to be written
+   *   to the given stream.
+   * @param output_type A variable indicating what kind of timing the output
+   *   should represent (CPU or wall time).
    */
   TimerOutput (ConditionalOStream        &stream,
                const enum OutputFrequency output_frequency,
@@ -464,8 +467,13 @@ public:
    * MPI network for calculating the CPU
    * time.
    *
-   * Meant for using std::cout as output
-   * stream.
+   * @param mpi_comm An MPI communicator across which we should accumulate or
+   *   otherwise synchronize the timing information we produce on every MPI process.
+   * @param stream The stream (of type std::ostream) to which output is written.
+   * @param output_frequency A variable indicating when output is to be written
+   *   to the given stream.
+   * @param output_type A variable indicating what kind of timing the output
+   *   should represent (CPU or wall time).
    */
   TimerOutput (MPI_Comm                   mpi_comm,
                std::ostream              &stream,
@@ -480,8 +488,13 @@ public:
    * MPI network for calculating the CPU
    * time.
    *
-   * Constructor that takes a
-   * ConditionalOStream to write output to.
+   * @param mpi_comm An MPI communicator across which we should accumulate or
+   *   otherwise synchronize the timing information we produce on every MPI process.
+   * @param stream The stream (of type ConditionalOstream) to which output is written.
+   * @param output_frequency A variable indicating when output is to be written
+   *   to the given stream.
+   * @param output_type A variable indicating what kind of timing the output
+   *   should represent (CPU or wall time).
    */
   TimerOutput (MPI_Comm                   mpi_comm,
                ConditionalOStream        &stream,
@@ -564,6 +577,18 @@ public:
   void reset ();
 
 private:
+  /**
+   * When to output information to the output stream.
+   */
+  OutputFrequency output_frequency;
+
+  /**
+   * Whether to show CPU times, wall
+   * times, or both CPU and wall times.
+   */
+  OutputType output_type;
+
+
   /**
    * A timer object for the overall
    * run time. If we are using MPI,