From 495b3d4c5e8807552ad92d91fe9ac0f8f08de240 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Wolfgang Bangerth Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2015 15:13:47 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Update documentation of CellAccessor::active_cell_index(). --- include/deal.II/grid/tria_accessor.h | 7 ++++++- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/include/deal.II/grid/tria_accessor.h b/include/deal.II/grid/tria_accessor.h index a3da804d1c..fcc3f7a2b0 100644 --- a/include/deal.II/grid/tria_accessor.h +++ b/include/deal.II/grid/tria_accessor.h @@ -2467,7 +2467,12 @@ public: * and * @ref GlossArtificialCell). * This function counts over all of them, including ghost and artificial - * active cells. + * active cells. This implies that the index returned by this function + * uniquely identifies a cell within the triangulation on a single processor, + * but does not uniquely identify the cell among the (parts of the) + * triangulation that is shared among processors. If you would like to identify + * active cells across processors, you need to consider the CellId of a cell + * returned by CellAccessor::id(). */ unsigned int active_cell_index () const; -- 2.39.5