FiberTypeBase Class Reference

Abstract procedural description of a data element which may be used to construct arrays and fields. More...

#include <FiberType.hpp>

List of all members.

Public Member Functions

• FiberTypeBase (bool isStaticObject)
• virtual const type_info & getType () const =0

  Type ID for this type.
  

• virtual unsigned multiplicity () const =0

  How many atomic elements construct this type.
  

• virtual unsigned mem_size () const =0

  How many bytes this object occupies in memory.
  

• virtual int rank () const =0

  For tensorial objects, specify the rank.
  

• virtual int grade () const =0

  Grade of multivectors.
  

• virtual int element_index (const int i[]) const =0

  Information about the organization of elements of a multi-ranked object.
  

• virtual unsigned element_size () const =0

  The size of an element in memory.
  

• virtual const FiberTypeBase & element_type () const =0
• virtual const char * coordinate_component_name (int i) const =0
• virtual const type_info & chart_type () const =0
• string chart_name () const
• virtual int chart_dimension () const =0
• virtual int indexing_scheme (int i) const =0
• bool is_lower_index (int i) const
• bool is_upper_index (int i) const
• virtual const char * nontensor () const =0
• std::string description () const

Friends

• bool operator< (const FiberTypeBase &l, const FiberTypeBase &r)

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Detailed Description

Abstract procedural description of a data element which may be used to construct arrays and fields.

This is an object-oriented version of the generic MetaInfo class.

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Constructor & Destructor Documentation

FiberTypeBase::FiberTypeBase

(

bool

isStaticObject

)

Parameters:

isStaticObject

Specifies when this object is actually a static object, not a dynamically allocated one (which is essential for reference counting).

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Member Function Documentation

virtual int FiberTypeBase::element_index

(

const int

i[]

)

const [pure virtual]

Information about the organization of elements of a multi-ranked object.

The index i must be smaller than rank().

Implemented in FiberType< T >.

virtual unsigned FiberTypeBase::multiplicity

(

)

const [pure virtual]

How many atomic elements construct this type.

Note that in memory there might be more than that due to alignment issues, see mem_size().

Implemented in FiberType< T >.

virtual int FiberTypeBase::rank

(

)

const [pure virtual]

For tensorial objects, specify the rank.

A matrix has rank two, a vector has rank one. Scalars have rank zero. The number of elements (multiplicity() ) can at most be chart_dimension() to the power of rank().

Implemented in FiberType< T >.