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+// Ceres Solver - A fast non-linear least squares minimizer
+// Copyright 2010, 2011, 2012 Google Inc. All rights reserved.
+// http://code.google.com/p/ceres-solver/
+//
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+//
+// Author: sameeragarwal@google.com (Sameer Agarwal)
+//
+// Utility routines for ResidualBlock evaluation.
+//
+// These are useful for detecting two common class of errors.
+//
+// 1. Uninitialized memory - where the user for some reason did not
+// compute part of a cost/residual/jacobian.
+//
+// 2. Numerical failure while computing the cost/residual/jacobian,
+// e.g. NaN, infinities etc. This is particularly useful since the
+// automatic differentiation code does computations that are not
+// evident to the user and can silently generate hard to debug errors.
+
+#ifndef CERES_INTERNAL_RESIDUAL_BLOCK_UTILS_H_
+#define CERES_INTERNAL_RESIDUAL_BLOCK_UTILS_H_
+
+#include <string>
+#include "ceres/internal/port.h"
+
+namespace ceres {
+namespace internal {
+
+class ResidualBlock;
+
+// Fill the array x with an impossible value that the user code is
+// never expected to compute.
+void InvalidateArray(int size, double* x);
+
+// Check if all the entries of the array x are valid, i.e. all the
+// values in the array should be finite and none of them should be
+// equal to the "impossible" value used by InvalidateArray.
+bool IsArrayValid(int size, const double* x);
+
+// Invalidate cost, resdual and jacobian arrays (if not NULL).
+void InvalidateEvaluation(const ResidualBlock& block,
+                          double* cost,
+                          double* residuals,
+                          double** jacobians);
+
+// Check if any of the arrays cost, residuals or jacobians contains an
+// NaN, return true if it does.
+bool IsEvaluationValid(const ResidualBlock& block,
+                       double const* const* parameters,
+                       double* cost,
+                       double* residuals,
+                       double** jacobians);
+
+// Create a string representation of the Residual block containing the
+// value of the parameters, residuals and jacobians if present.
+// Useful for debugging output.
+string EvaluationToString(const ResidualBlock& block,
+                          double const* const* parameters,
+                          double* cost,
+                          double* residuals,
+                          double** jacobians);
+
+}  // namespace internal
+}  // namespace ceres
+
+#endif  // CERES_INTERNAL_RESIDUAL_BLOCK_UTILS_H_