- provide no_topology() characteristic to avoid triggering potentially
expensive mesh connectivity calculations when they are not required.
- remove/deprecate unused pointField references from the renumber
methods. These appear to have crept in from outer similarities
with decompositionMethod, but have no meaning for renumbering.
- remove/deprecate various unused aggregation renumberings since these
have been previously replaced by pre-calling calcCellCells, or
using bandCompression directly.
- make regionFaceOrder for block-wise renumbering optional and
treat as experimental (ie, default is now disabled).
The original idea was to sort the intra-region and inter-region faces
separately. However, this will mostly lead to non-upper triangular
ordering between regions, which checkMesh and others don't really like.
ENH: add timing information for various renumberMesh stages
ENH: add reset of clockTime and cpuTime increment
- simplifies section-wise timings
ENH: add globalIndex::null() and fieldTypes::processorType conveniences
- provides more central management of these characteristics
- similar to the behaviour of std::ignore and consistent with the
no input / no output nature of nullObject. Similarly accept a
const reference for its Istream operator.
- make most nullObject methods constexpr
- previously had a single pointer/value zeros (8 bytes), this meant
that the reinterpret cast to a List would yield a reference that
could be unsafe under certain conditions.
Eg,
const labelList& myList = labelList::null();
Info<< myList.size() << nl; // OK since size is the first parameter
SubList<label>(myList, 0); // Unsafe
The SubList usage is unsafe since it passes in pointer and size into
the underlying UList. However, the pointer from the labelList::null()
will be whatever happens to be around in memory immediately after the
NullObject singleton. This is mostly not a problem if the List size
is always checked, but does mean that the data pointer is rather
dubious.
- Increase the size of the nullObject singleton to 32 bytes of zeros
to ensure that most reinterpret casting will not result in objects
that reference arbitrary memory.
The 32-byte data size is rather arbitrary, but covers most basic
containers.
