On 14 November 2006 at 10:55, Jordi Gutierrez Hermoso wrote:
| Package: libgsl0
| version 1.8-1
| severity: wishlist
| 
| I'm not sure if this is desirable, but in order to use exceptions in
| GSL from my C++ wrappers, GSL needs to be recompiled with the CFLAG
| -fexceptions.
| 
| I did this myself with the upstream tarball and have met no
| undesirable side effects.

Very interesting suggestion. I am principally in favour, and have only two
concerns

i)   possible overhead, though the gcc manual seems to imply that it is
     affecting size only, not speed

ii)  Policy -- I am not sure if Debian has a view on this either way. I may
     bring this up on the Debian-science list.

Would you mind also asking on the GSL list if there is a general
recommendation in favour, against, or neutral?

Cheers, Dirk

-- 
Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something. 
                                                  -- Thomas A. Edison


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