From 7fa5dcc7f50a625583b641aad2985bd4f0f08a45 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: maier <maier@0785d39b-7218-0410-832d-ea1e28bc413d>
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2013 14:42:54 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Add a note in changes.h

git-svn-id: https://svn.dealii.org/trunk@29302 0785d39b-7218-0410-832d-ea1e28bc413d
---
 deal.II/doc/news/changes.h                |  7 +++++++
 deal.II/include/deal.II/base/exceptions.h |  4 ++--
 deal.II/source/base/exceptions.cc         | 11 +++++++----
 3 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/deal.II/doc/news/changes.h b/deal.II/doc/news/changes.h
index 38a6f061a9..0b389615b6 100644
--- a/deal.II/doc/news/changes.h
+++ b/deal.II/doc/news/changes.h
@@ -25,6 +25,13 @@ inconvenience this causes.
 
 <ol>
 
+<li> Changed: Internal structures of ExceptionBase are now thread safe. The
+Assert macro does not print an exception to deallog any more prior to
+throwing if deal_II_exceptions::abort_on_exception==false. Removed: A
+number of obsolete Exceptions that are not used in the library any more.
+<br>
+(Matthias Maier, 2013/04/16)
+
 <li> Removed: A number of header files that have been deprecated a long time
 ago have been removed. All of them had previously only included the header file
 that had superseded them. To upgrade, simply include the currently used
diff --git a/deal.II/include/deal.II/base/exceptions.h b/deal.II/include/deal.II/base/exceptions.h
index e850c4e51e..6970b99df1 100644
--- a/deal.II/include/deal.II/base/exceptions.h
+++ b/deal.II/include/deal.II/base/exceptions.h
@@ -195,8 +195,8 @@ namespace deal_II_exceptions
     /**
      * Conditionally abort the program. Depending on whether
      * disable_abort_on_exception was called, this function either aborts
-     * the program flow by printing an error message and calling
-     * <tt>std::abort()</tt>, or throws @p exc instead.
+     * the program flow by printing the error message provided by @p exc
+     * and calling <tt>std::abort()</tt>, or throws @p exc instead.
      */
     void abort (const ExceptionBase &exc);
 
diff --git a/deal.II/source/base/exceptions.cc b/deal.II/source/base/exceptions.cc
index f7f5582a3b..14689ea8d1 100644
--- a/deal.II/source/base/exceptions.cc
+++ b/deal.II/source/base/exceptions.cc
@@ -130,10 +130,12 @@ void ExceptionBase::set_fields (const char *f,
   print_stack_trace (converter);
 
   if (!deal_II_exceptions::additional_assert_output.empty())
-    converter << "--------------------------------------------------------"
-              << std::endl
-              << deal_II_exceptions::additional_assert_output
-              << std::endl;
+    {
+      converter << "--------------------------------------------------------"
+                << std::endl
+                << deal_II_exceptions::additional_assert_output
+                << std::endl;
+    }
 
   converter << "--------------------------------------------------------"
             << std::endl;
@@ -281,6 +283,7 @@ namespace deal_II_exceptions
     {
       if(dealii::deal_II_exceptions::abort_on_exception)
         {
+          //* Print the error message and bail out:
           std::cerr << exc.what() << std::endl;
           std::abort();
         }
-- 
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