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CGAL Developers Manual
Table of Contents
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Table of Contents
1 Introduction
1.1
Primary design goals
1.2
The overall design
2 Coding Conventions
2.1
Naming scheme
2.2
Programming conventions
2.3
Code format
2.4
File header
3 Geometry Kernels
3.1
Cartesian and homogeneous representation
3.2
Cartesian versus homogeneous computation
3.3
Available kernels
3.4
Kernel design and conventions
3.5
Number-type based predicates
3.6
Missing functionality
4 Traits Classes
4.1
What are traits classes in C
GAL
?
4.2
Why are traits classes in C
GAL
?
4.3
An example - planar convex hulls
4.4
Kernel as traits
5 Checks: Pre- and Postconditions, Assertions, and Warnings
5.1
Categories of checks
5.2
Using checks
5.3
Controlling checks at a finer granularity
5.4
Exception handling
6 Reference Counting and Handle Types
6.1
Reference counting
6.2
Handle & Rep
6.3
Using Handle & Rep
6.4
Templated handles
6.5
Using templated handles
6.6
Allocation
7 Memory Management
7.1
The C
++
standard allocator interface
7.2
The allocator macro
7.3
Using the allocator
8 Namespaces
8.1
What are namespaces
8.2
Namespace std
8.3
Namespace CGAL
8.4
Name lookup
8.5
Namespace CGAL::NTS
9 Polymorphic Return Types
10 Iterators and Circulators (and Handles)
10.1
Iterator and circulator traits
10.2
Input and output iterators
10.3
Writing code with and for iterators, circulators, and handles
11 Robustness Issues
11.1
The role of predicates and constructions
12 Portability Issues
12.1
Checking for L
EDA
or GMP support
12.2
Using Boost
12.3
Using the version-number and configuration macros and flags
12.4
Identifying compilers and architectures
12.5
Known problems and workarounds
13 Debugging Tips
13.1
Graphical debugging
13.2
Cross-checkers
13.3
Examining the values of variables
14 Editorial Committee
15 Recommended Reading
Bibliography
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