Re: [Help-gsl] Can I use an error handler that throws exceptions?

[Brian Gough]

Jordi Gutierrez Hermoso wrote:
> I wrote my error handler that throws exceptions instead of printing
> error messages and calling abort(). I attach the relevant code in case
> anyone wants to analyse it.
>
> At any rate, my error handler does indeed throw exceptions, but is
> there something I am not understanding about C/C++ or the GSL? 

See the note about "-fexceptions" in the section "Usage - Compatibility 
with C++" of the manual -- by default C libraries are compiled without 
support for exceptions with GCC but you can enable that when you run 
./configure.

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Brian Gough
(GSL Maintainer)

Network Theory Ltd,
Publishing the GSL Manual - http://www.network-theory.co.uk/gsl/manual/