rawGaloisField()

const Ring * rawGaloisField

(

const RingElement *

f

)

Definition at line 76 of file ring.cpp.

{
  // Check that the ring R of f is a polynomial ring in one var over a ZZ/p
  // Check that f has degree >= 2
  // Check that f is monic
  // If any of these fail, then return 0.
  try
    {
      return GF::create(f);
  } catch (const exc::engine_error& e)
    {
      ERROR(e.what());
      return nullptr;
  }
}

References GF::create(), and ERROR.