From 8fb0d5509cf29df52f6710a89076bd286b2d633d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Benjamin Bouvier <bnjbouv@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2012 16:16:14 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Bugfix: when retrieving the best element of an empty
 population eoPop, segfault. Fixed by launching an exception in this case.

---
 eo/src/eoPop.h | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/eo/src/eoPop.h b/eo/src/eoPop.h
index 3ea53f466..371fdfd01 100644
--- a/eo/src/eoPop.h
+++ b/eo/src/eoPop.h
@@ -201,6 +201,8 @@ public:
 #else
         typename eoPop<EOT>::const_iterator it = std::max_element(begin(), end());
 #endif
+    if( it == end() )
+        throw std::runtime_error("eoPop<EOT>: Empty population, when calling best_element().");
     return (*it);
   }