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+// Copyright (c) 2014 INRIA Sophia-Antipolis (France).
+// All rights reserved.
+//
+// This file is part of CGAL (www.cgal.org).
+// You can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU
+// General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation,
+// either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
+//
+// Licensees holding a valid commercial license may use this file in
+// accordance with the commercial license agreement provided with the software.
+//
+// This file is provided AS IS with NO WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, INCLUDING THE
+// WARRANTY OF DESIGN, MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
+//
+// $URL$
+// $Id$
+//
+//
+// Author(s)     : Clement Jamin
+//
+//******************************************************************************
+// File Description : remove_far_points_in_mesh_3 function definition.
+//******************************************************************************
+
+#ifndef CGAL_REMOVE_FAR_POINTS_IN_MESH_3_H
+#define CGAL_REMOVE_FAR_POINTS_IN_MESH_3_H
+
+namespace CGAL {
+  
+namespace Mesh_3 {
+
+/************************************************
+// Class Mesher_3_base
+// Two versions: sequential / parallel
+************************************************/
+
+// Sequential
+template <typename C3T3, typename Concurrency_tag = C3T3::Concurrency_tag>
+class Remove_far_points
+{
+#ifdef CGAL_SEQUENTIAL_MESH_3_ADD_OUTSIDE_POINTS_ON_A_FAR_SPHERE
+
+public:
+  Remove_far_points(C3T3 &c3t3) : m_c3t3(c3t3) {}
+  void remove_far_points() { m_c3t3.remove_far_points(); }
+private:
+  C3T3 &m_c3t3;
+
+#else // !CGAL_SEQUENTIAL_MESH_3_ADD_OUTSIDE_POINTS_ON_A_FAR_SPHERE
+
+public:
+  Remove_far_points(C3T3 &) {}
+  void remove_far_points() {}
+
+#endif
+};
+
+#ifdef CGAL_LINKED_WITH_TBB
+// Parallel
+template <typename C3T3>
+class Remove_far_points<C3T3, Parallel_tag>
+{
+public:
+  Remove_far_points(C3T3 &c3t3) : m_c3t3(c3t3) {}
+  
+  void remove_far_points()
+  {
+    m_c3t3.remove_far_points();
+  }
+
+private:
+  C3T3 &m_c3t3;
+};
+#endif // CGAL_LINKED_WITH_TBB
+
+} // namespace Mesh_3
+
+template <typename C3T3>
+void
+remove_far_points_in_mesh_3(C3T3& c3t3)
+{
+  typedef typename Mesh_3::Remove_far_points<C3T3> Remove_far_points;
+  Remove_far_points cu(c3t3);
+  cu.remove_far_points();
+}
+
+
+} //namespace CGAL
+
+#endif // CGAL_REMOVE_FAR_POINTS_IN_MESH_3_H