From: Wolfgang Bangerth <bangerth@math.tamu.edu>
Date: Sun, 15 Mar 2015 04:48:07 +0000 (-0500)
Subject: Add an assertion to GridGenerator::create_union_triangulation().
X-Git-Tag: v8.3.0-rc1~373^2
X-Git-Url: https://gitweb.dealii.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=refs%2Fpull%2F666%2Fhead;p=dealii.git

Add an assertion to GridGenerator::create_union_triangulation().
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diff --git a/include/deal.II/grid/grid_generator.h b/include/deal.II/grid/grid_generator.h
index 11d691e452..3e549022cc 100644
--- a/include/deal.II/grid/grid_generator.h
+++ b/include/deal.II/grid/grid_generator.h
@@ -698,6 +698,10 @@ namespace GridGenerator
    * meshes, for example in order to compose a mesh for a complicated geometry
    * from meshes for simpler geometries, then this is not the function for
    * you. Instead, consider GridGenerator::merge_triangulations().
+   *
+   * @pre Both of the source conditions need to be available entirely
+   *   locally. In other words, they can not be objects of type
+   *   parallel::distributed::Triangulation.
    */
   template <int dim, int spacedim>
   void
diff --git a/source/grid/grid_generator.cc b/source/grid/grid_generator.cc
index 6ff40765ff..e64b19fcd7 100644
--- a/source/grid/grid_generator.cc
+++ b/source/grid/grid_generator.cc
@@ -3397,6 +3397,12 @@ namespace GridGenerator
     Assert (GridTools::have_same_coarse_mesh (triangulation_1, triangulation_2),
             ExcMessage ("The two input triangulations are not derived from "
                         "the same coarse mesh as required."));
+    Assert ((dynamic_cast<const parallel::distributed::Triangulation<dim,spacedim>*>(&triangulation_1) == 0)
+            &&
+            (dynamic_cast<const parallel::distributed::Triangulation<dim,spacedim>*>(&triangulation_2) == 0),
+            ExcMessage ("The source triangulations for this function must both "
+                        "be available entirely locally, and not be distributed "
+                        "triangulations."));
 
     // first copy triangulation_1, and
     // then do as many iterations as