Re: Prevent PARI from determining program

[Max Alekseyev <maxale@gmail.com>]

Sören,
trap() function may help as it traps errors and allow to resume calculations.
Regards,
Max

On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 8:28 PM, Sören Lennart Berg
<soeren.berg@st.ovgu.de> wrote:
> Hi,
> the program I'm working on essentially runs a huge for loop. This means millions or even billions of
> loop cycles. In every iteration PARI is used to compute different things, for example
> polynomial roots, resultants and more. However, in rare cases PARI might crash due to
> faulty arguments(causing division by zero for example), a too small PARI stack or bugs.
> Unfortunately PARI then determines the program. Is there a way to avoid this behaviour?
> Can I reinitialise the PARI system and keep going? If the program crashes all computations
> would be in vain.
>
> best regards,
> Sören