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[Help-gsl] Doing multimin, but my error gets coverted to GSL_EFAILED
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Leek, Jim |
Subject: |
[Help-gsl] Doing multimin, but my error gets coverted to GSL_EFAILED |
Date: |
Fri, 7 Feb 2014 22:29:50 +0000 |
Hi, I'm pretty new to GSL, but I should've started using it earlier.
Anyway, I've got a case where I'm doing a simple 2D optimization with
gsl_multimin_fminimizer_nmsimplex2 . One of the error conditions is that the
optimizer might stray out of the valid range. So, for that case I put in this
error in the 2D function:
if(v1 < vmin || v1 > vmax ||
v2 < vmin || v2 > vmax) {
GSL_ERROR_VAL("Optimization has spread outsize the bounds",
GSL_ERANGE, GSL_NAN);
}
This part seems to work, if I have the default error handler on, the program
crashes out with the proper error. But in my case this is actually a
recoverable error, I want to be able to handle it. So, I turn off the error
handler: gsl_set_error_handler_off();
Then I have this in the iteration loop:
do {
status = gsl_multimin_fminimizer_iterate(s);
if (status)
break;
....[snip]....
}
while (status == GSL_CONTINUE && iter < 1000);
if(status != GSL_SUCCESS) {
//If we slid out of range, just skip this optimization, it's out of bounds.
if(status == GSL_ERANGE) {
return 0;
} else {
exit(status);
}
}
The check against GSL_ERANGE doesn't work, because the status returned turns
out to be GSL_EFAILED. So, no matter how I fail, I get the same error code
GSL_EFAILED. I think it's due to this line in multimin/simplex2.c :
line 522:
if (status != GSL_SUCCESS)
{
GSL_ERROR ("contraction failed", GSL_EFAILED);
}
So, simplex2 just eats my error code. This seems like a bug to me. Is this
intentional? It doesn't seem hard to fix.
Note, I'm using gsl 1.13 because that's what's installed on my machine, but
simplex2.c in gsl 1.16 is exactly the same file, so I don't think this
behaviour has changed.
Thanks,
Jim
- [Help-gsl] Doing multimin, but my error gets coverted to GSL_EFAILED,
Leek, Jim <=