Re: [Bug-gsl] ode-initval2 testsuite failure

[Rhys Ulerich]

> Subsequent error handling is also strange. Is GSL really supposed to call
> abort() and kill any unsuspecting caller without warning?

I can't speak to your ode-initval2 problem, but I can answer your
error handling one.  As documented in
http://www.gnu.org/software/gsl/manual/html_node/Error-Handling.html,
GSL has a modifiable global error handler.  The default one happens to
behave as you described so that quick'n'dirty programs break quickly
and dirtily.  You can turn off the default behavior as shown at
http://www.gnu.org/software/gsl/manual/html_node/Error-Reporting-Examples.html.
 For more complicated requirements, you can use a custom error
handler.

- Rhys