From 9324121953bb33e13b9050657b9ef63680fadfae Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Joachim=20Sch=C3=B6berl?= <joachim.schoeberl@tuwien.ac.at>
Date: Wed, 31 May 2017 07:54:12 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] smaller int-type for GetNV

---
 libsrc/meshing/meshtype.hpp | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/libsrc/meshing/meshtype.hpp b/libsrc/meshing/meshtype.hpp
index 129e1fce..6bca8233 100644
--- a/libsrc/meshing/meshtype.hpp
+++ b/libsrc/meshing/meshtype.hpp
@@ -680,7 +680,7 @@ namespace netgen
     ///
     int GetNP () const { return np; }
     ///
-    short int GetNV() const
+    uint8_t GetNV() const
     {
       __assume(typ >= TET && typ <= HEX);        
       switch (typ)
@@ -699,7 +699,8 @@ namespace netgen
 #ifdef DEBUG
           PrintSysError ("Element3d::GetNV not implemented for typ ", typ);
 #endif
-            return -1;
+          __assume(false);
+          return -1;
         }
     }