On 10 September 2009 at 12:48, Matthew Vernon wrote: | Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: | | <snip> | | > 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.
Tough one. SEGV is bad. On the other hand, the GSL RMGs came in a 'framework' so there may be numerous entry points. Brian, any thougths? (Oh, and I missed gsl 1.13 by a day but it is in Debian unstable as of yesterday eve.) Dirk | | Regards, | | Matthew | | -- | Matthew Vernon, Research Fellow | Ecology and Epidemiology Group, | University of Warwick | http://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/mcvernon -- Three out of two people have difficulties with fractions. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
