Aaron Heckmann <aaron.heckmann at gmail.com> writes: abort() is bad b/c it crashes the program, in this case a server. It would be nice if gmp got away from abort() and instead passed back an error msg of some sort so other programs could handle these situations gracefully. Please see: http://gmplib.org/list-archives/gmp-discuss/2010-August/004271.html -- Torbjörn