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<h3 class="section">3.4 Using GSL error reporting in your own functions</h3>
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<p>If you are writing numerical functions in a program which also uses GSL
code you may find it convenient to adopt the same error reporting
conventions as in the library.
</p>
<p>To report an error you need to call the function <code>gsl_error</code> with a
string describing the error and then return an appropriate error code
from <code>gsl_errno.h</code>, or a special value, such as <code>NaN</code>. For
convenience the file <samp>gsl_errno.h</samp> defines two macros which carry
out these steps:
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<dt><a name="index-GSL_005fERROR"></a>Macro: <strong>GSL_ERROR</strong> <em>(<var>reason</var>, <var>gsl_errno</var>)</em></dt>
<dd>
<p>This macro reports an error using the GSL conventions and returns a
status value of <code>gsl_errno</code>. It expands to the following code fragment,
</p>
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<pre class="example">gsl_error (reason, __FILE__, __LINE__, gsl_errno);
return gsl_errno;
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<p>The macro definition in <samp>gsl_errno.h</samp> actually wraps the code
in a <code>do { ... } while (0)</code> block to prevent possible
parsing problems.
</p></dd></dl>
<p>Here is an example of how the macro could be used to report that a
routine did not achieve a requested tolerance. To report the error the
routine needs to return the error code <code>GSL_ETOL</code>.
</p>
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<pre class="example">if (residual > tolerance)
{
GSL_ERROR("residual exceeds tolerance", GSL_ETOL);
}
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<dt><a name="index-GSL_005fERROR_005fVAL"></a>Macro: <strong>GSL_ERROR_VAL</strong> <em>(<var>reason</var>, <var>gsl_errno</var>, <var>value</var>)</em></dt>
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<p>This macro is the same as <code>GSL_ERROR</code> but returns a user-defined
value of <var>value</var> instead of an error code. It can be used for
mathematical functions that return a floating point value.
</p></dd></dl>
<p>The following example shows how to return a <code>NaN</code> at a mathematical
singularity using the <code>GSL_ERROR_VAL</code> macro,
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{
GSL_ERROR_VAL("argument lies on singularity",
GSL_ERANGE, GSL_NAN);
}
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