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[Andreas Fabri <>]

Hello Yifei,

If you replace at the same time the kernel in the class
Surface_mesh_default_triangulation it compiles,

BUT

We do not recommend to do this, as you switch off efforts
we make to provide robust code.

Best regards,

andreas


On 20/08/2011 14:17, Yifei Li wrote:
> Laurent,
>
> I modified
> examples/Surface_reconstruction_point_3/poisson_reconstruction_example.cpp
> by replace
>
> typedef CGAL::Exact_predicates_inexact_constructions_kernel Kernel
>
> with
>
> typedef CGAL::Simple_cartesian<double> Kernel
>
>
> Yifei
>
> On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 9:20 AM, Laurent Rineau (GeometryFactory)
> <
> <mailto:>>
>  wrote:
>
>     On samedi 13 août 2011 08:50:47 Yifei Li wrote:
>      > Hi,
>      >
>      > I got many compiler errors after I replaced
>      > Exact_predicates_inexact_constructions_kernel with
>     Simple_cartesian<double>
>      > in surface reconstruction example.
>      >
>      > What is Simple_cartesian kernel good for then?
>
>     A general answer:
>     http://www.cgal.org/FAQ.html#kernels
>
>     However, that is strange that you got compilation errors. Can you
>     tell which
>     program your were trying to compile and how you modified it?
>
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