On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 4:16 PM, Roy Stogner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> On Sat, 29 Nov 2008, John Peterson wrote:
>
>> On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 1:42 PM, Roy Stogner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> That'd do it.  Didn't David or someone do this once too?  It's an easy
>>> mistake to make.  We ought to add a warning message somehow... maybe
>>> when an FE object is reinit'ed using a grandparent or higher element?
>>
>> I've wondered about what we could do about this problem as well.  At
>> the time of instantiation of a regular element iterator, in debug
>> mode, we might be able to check the mesh for the presence of ancestor
>> elements, and warn that you may be iterating over an improper subset
>> of elements.
>
> That would probably go too far - I think there's a lot of legit
> library level code that needs to iterate over all elements.
>
> My first thought was to warn on reinit() or dof_indices() of
> non-active elements, but that might get falsely triggered by
> library projection code.

How about a flag in FEBase we can toggle to turn on/off warnings about
calling reinit on non-active elements?  By default it would always
warn, but we could flip the flag during library routines where we
really need to do reinitialization of non-active elements.

-- 
John

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