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["Garth N. Wells" <gnw20@xxxxxxxxx>]

Anders Logg wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 12:10:42PM +0200, Harish Narayanan wrote:
> > I needed to touch a few files to get a recent clone of the dolfin
> > repository to compile of my machine. My compiler (mpic++/gcc4.2) doesn't
> > seem to like default values for boolean variables (verbose) being
> > specified both in the .cpp and .h files.
> >
> > I have attached a bundle removing the default values in the .h files.
>
> The default values should only be speficied in the header files (not
> .cpp), at least that's what my GCC tells me...

Going further on this, I read yesterday that default values should not 
be specified in both the base and derived classes, otherwise evil things 
can happen. If they are specified in the base class, then they should 
not be in the derived class.

Garth

> I've pushed a fix.
>
> --
> Anders
>
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