parallel_object.h

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// The libMesh Finite Element Library.
// Copyright (C) 2002-2013 Benjamin S. Kirk, John W. Peterson, Roy H. Stogner

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#ifndef LIBMESH_PARALLEL_OBJECT_H
#define LIBMESH_PARALLEL_OBJECT_H


// Local includes
#include "libmesh/parallel.h"

// Macro to identify and debug functions which should only be called in
// parallel on every processor at once
#undef parallel_object_only
#ifndef NDEBUG
#define parallel_object_only() libmesh_parallel_only(this->comm())
#else
#define parallel_object_only()  ((void) 0)
#endif


namespace libMesh
{
class ParallelObject
{
public:

  ParallelObject (const Parallel::Communicator & comm_in) :
    _communicator(comm_in)
  {}

  ParallelObject (const ParallelObject & other) :
    _communicator(other._communicator)
  {}

  ParallelObject & operator= (const ParallelObject & libmesh_dbg_var(other))
  {
    libmesh_assert_equal_to (&_communicator, &other._communicator);
    return *this;
  }

  virtual ~ParallelObject () {}

  const Parallel::Communicator & comm () const
  { return _communicator; }

  processor_id_type n_processors () const
  { return cast_int<processor_id_type>(_communicator.size()); }

  processor_id_type processor_id () const
  { return cast_int<processor_id_type>(_communicator.rank()); }


protected:

  const Parallel::Communicator & _communicator;
};
} // namespace libMesh

#endif // LIBMESH_PARALLEL_OBJECT_H