From: Denis Davydov <davydden@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 7 May 2019 17:39:29 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: add a changelog and adjust documentation
X-Git-Tag: v9.1.0-rc1~92^2
X-Git-Url: https://gitweb.dealii.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=fdcf667606a3ad45d9a70ebb705cd5b96e59460d;p=dealii.git

add a changelog and adjust documentation
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diff --git a/doc/news/changes/minor/20190507DenisDavydov b/doc/news/changes/minor/20190507DenisDavydov
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..d8db74fe31
--- /dev/null
+++ b/doc/news/changes/minor/20190507DenisDavydov
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+Improved: Extend Utilities::inverse_Hilbert_space_filling_curve to handle degenerate cases.
+<br>
+(Denis Davydov, 2019/05/07)
diff --git a/include/deal.II/base/utilities.h b/include/deal.II/base/utilities.h
index f43ac81897..8017a392ed 100644
--- a/include/deal.II/base/utilities.h
+++ b/include/deal.II/base/utilities.h
@@ -91,6 +91,9 @@ namespace Utilities
    *
    * The depth of the Hilbert curve (i.e. the number of bits per dimension) by
    * default is equal to <code>64</code>.
+   *
+   * @note This function can also handle degenerate cases, e.g. when the bounding
+   * box has zero size in one of the dimensions.
    */
   template <int dim, typename Number>
   std::vector<std::array<std::uint64_t, dim>>