I finally transformed the internals of NTL to be exception safe and to throw exceptions upon encountering an error (rather than the old "abort with error message" approach).
This required a major overhaul of a lot of NTL internals, but the high level interfaces remain unchanged. To enable exceptions, you need to configure with NTL_EXCEPTIONS=on, and use a C++11 compiler (you need "lambdas" and C++11-style "noexcept"). Unfortunately, error handling in GMP is rather is still rather crude, and so the usefulness of all this is a bit limited if NTL is built using GMP. That said, the GMP developers are planning on adding proper error handling...hopefully soon. More details: http://www.shoup.net/ntl/doc/tour-changes.html http://www.shoup.net/ntl/doc/tour-struct.html#except Happy holidays!! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
