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std::runtime_error when using GD_STOGO #504

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I try to use the StoGo algorithm in NLOPT to optimize my objective function, but this algorithm always throw std::runtime_error(NLOPT_FAILURE). In order to verify the correctness of the code, I wrote a very simple example

#include <iostream>
#include <vector>

#include <nlopt.hpp>


double loss_fun(std::vector<double> const &x,std::vector<double> &grad,void *const data) {
    if(!grad.empty()) {
        grad[0]=2*x[0];
        grad[1]=2*x[1];
    }
    double loss=x[0]*x[0]+x[1]*x[1];
    return loss;
}

int main() {
    nlopt::opt opter(nlopt::GD_STOGO,2);
    opter.set_max_objective(loss_fun,nullptr);
    opter.set_lower_bounds(0.0);
    opter.set_upper_bounds(1.0);
    opter.set_xtol_abs(1e-8);
    opter.set_maxtime(1.0);
    std::vector<double> x={0.5,0.5};
    double loss_global=1.0;
    nlopt::result res=opter.optimize(x,loss_global);
    std::cout<<x[0]<<' '<<x[1]<<' '<<loss_global<<std::endl;
    return 0;
}

This code maximizes the objective function $Loss=x_0^2+x_1^2$. Obviously, the maximum value is obtained when $x_0=1, x_1=1$.
This code can get the correct result using most of the optimization algorithms, but it still reports an error when using StoGo.
I'm not sure if there is a bug in my code.

My system is Ubuntu22 LTS, install NLopt by apt install libnlopt-cxx-dev,
and I use g++ -lnlopt_cxx -lm to compile this program.

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