added #ifndef DOXYGEN to forward declarations #8585
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Forward declarations cause doxygen to report an incorrect location for the definition of a class/struct. For example, at the end of the documentation of
SymmetricTensor
it saysinstead of
This PR attempts to fix it. My first commit is a proof of concept that fixes this issue for the documentation of
Tensor
andSymmetricTensor
. If you agree with these changes, I will add apply the same modifications to all forward declarations of all header files.In my observation, the issue is seen only for forward-declared classes/structs. doxygen does not have a problem with forward-declared functions.