Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
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Or do you claim that not-using
gsl_rng_alloc (gsl_rng_default)
leading to a SEGV is a invalid behaviour? I am much less convinced that that
is a valid bug report -- it's much like using un-alloc'ed pointer types in
my book.
That is my claim, yes; I'd content that a very simple
sanity-check-and-error message would be better behaviour from a library
in this case. I conceed that it's arguable, but IMAO gsl should emit an
error rather than SEGV on bad input to any of its functions, unless it's
unreasonably expensive to do the error-checking.
Regards,
Matthew
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