From c0316dc5aef495085a9c261243d9867fdaa0d31f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Wolfgang Bangerth <bangerth@colostate.edu>
Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2020 13:01:53 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Compress documentation.

---
 include/deal.II/base/types.h | 30 +++++-------------------------
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 25 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/deal.II/base/types.h b/include/deal.II/base/types.h
index d76b48da40..8bbd8238ec 100644
--- a/include/deal.II/base/types.h
+++ b/include/deal.II/base/types.h
@@ -54,7 +54,6 @@ namespace types
    */
 #define DEAL_II_VERTEX_INDEX_MPI_TYPE MPI_UINT64_T
 
-#ifdef DEAL_II_WITH_64BIT_INDICES
   /**
    * The type used to denote the global index of degrees of freedom. This
    * type is then also used for querying the global *number* of degrees
@@ -72,38 +71,19 @@ namespace types
    * @ref GlobalDoFIndex
    * page for guidance on when this type should or should not be used.
    */
+#ifdef DEAL_II_WITH_64BIT_INDICES
   using global_dof_index = uint64_t;
+#else
+  using global_dof_index  = unsigned int;
+#endif
 
   /**
    * An identifier that denotes the MPI type associated with
    * types::global_dof_index.
    */
+#ifdef DEAL_II_WITH_64BIT_INDICES
 #  define DEAL_II_DOF_INDEX_MPI_TYPE MPI_UINT64_T
-
 #else
-  /**
-   * The type used to denote the global index of degrees of freedom. This
-   * type is then also used for querying the global *number* of degrees
-   * of freedom, since the number is simply the largest index plus one.
-   *
-   * While in sequential computations the 4 billion indices of 32-bit unsigned
-   * integers is plenty, parallel computations using (for example) the
-   * parallel::distributed::Triangulation class can overflow this number and
-   * consequently, deal.II chooses a larger integer type when
-   * configured to use 64-bit indices.
-   *
-   * The data type always corresponds to an unsigned integer type.
-   *
-   * See the
-   * @ref GlobalDoFIndex
-   * page for guidance on when this type should or should not be used.
-   */
-  using global_dof_index = unsigned int;
-
-  /**
-   * An identifier that denotes the MPI type associated with
-   * types::global_dof_index.
-   */
 #  define DEAL_II_DOF_INDEX_MPI_TYPE MPI_UNSIGNED
 #endif
 
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