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Re: [Bug-gsl] GSL zsolve.c bug and the fix
From: |
Brian Gough |
Subject: |
Re: [Bug-gsl] GSL zsolve.c bug and the fix |
Date: |
Tue, 2 May 2006 18:46:36 +0100 |
Suleyman Guleyupoglu writes:
> I report this as a bug with the code not the documentation though. I would
> argue that the documentation should remain the same but the code is changed
> as I suggested earlier. Otherwise, the function's return value is useless.
> It either returns GSL_SUCCESS or calls the error handler, in which case the
> program aborts. So for the caller, what is the point of checking the return
> value? I.e., as long as the function returns, it was successful. So maybe
> the function should have been declared "void gsl_poly...."
If you turn off the error handler globally then all error codes are
returned to the caller--this is the recommended way of using the
library. See the example program in the error handling chapter for
details.
--
best regards,
Brian Gough
Network Theory Ltd,
Publishing the GSL Manual - http://www.network-theory.co.uk/gsl/manual/