[Dune] Re: Description of DGF in the grid-howto

[Oliver Sander]

Robert Kloefkorn wrote:

>Hi all,
>
>  
>
>>* The howto states that it is necessary to use obscure
>>preprocessor macros to use the DGF parser.
>>I think the user should not be
>>encouraged to use preprocessor macros. We want to teach
>>then a clean programming stile.
>>The preprocessor does obfuscate the code and it
>>get's more difficult to debug. The examples should be
>>adjusted such that the GridType macro is not used.
>>    
>>
>
>In addition to Andreas' comments (which I totally support) with the
>GRIDTYPE and GRIDDIM macro
>for ALBERTA the right library is linked when switching dimensions.
>This is a feature that you hardly can achieve with defining
>a const int dim inside the program.
>
>Regards
>
>Robert
>
>  
>
I thought that's what the --with-alberta-dim configure flag
is for?  Where does the preprocessor come into play?

--
Oliver

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