Re: gp: gcd(0) error message unhelpful

[Karim BELABAS <Karim.Belabas@math.u-psud.fr>]

On Tue, 7 Jan 2003, Michael Somos wrote:
> I suppose I could just use "gdb" and get a backtrace that way if all else
> fails.

Btw, you can use break loops for this purpose:

(21:14) gp > i = 0; 1/i; i^2
  ***   division by zero in gdiv, gdivgs or ginv
  ***   Break loop (type 'break' or Control-d to go back to GP): i=0;1/i;i^2
                                                                        ^----
The default error message is distinctly unhelpful, but the break loop tells
me where where the problem occured [ and I can also inspect the local
variables at this point ]

At the end of my initialization file, I set the default trap handler to
enable this behaviour [ 'trap()'; I agree the interface is not nice, but at
least it is documented ]

Cheers,

    Karim.
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