From: Andy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com>
To: Andreas Rottmann <a.rottmann@gmx.at>
Cc: Guile Development <guile-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Random numbers (again) broken on 64-bit platforms
Date: Sun, 01 Aug 2010 21:57:53 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3r5ii3y2m.fsf@unquote.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87mxt6maud.fsf@delenn.lan> (Andreas Rottmann's message of "Sun, 01 Aug 2010 20:44:42 +0200")
Hi,
On Sun 01 Aug 2010 20:44, Andreas Rottmann <a.rottmann@gmx.at> writes:
> I've spotted an issue with your fix: the way 64-bit random numbers are
> generated in scm_random() is bogus;
Grr, indeed. Fix applied, thanks.
>> Would you be interested in [importing another rng]? We would need
>> some test suites too, I think, and possibly changes to the scm_t_rng
>> structure.
>>
> Sorry, I don't have the inclination to work on this ATM. Also, random
> number tests are kinda hard to write -- it's random stuff, after all
> :-).
Too bad, we could really use it, and now is the time for any needed ABI
breaks. Thanks anyway for the fix!
Andy
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-08-01 19:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-07-26 21:01 Random numbers (again) broken on 64-bit platforms Andreas Rottmann
2010-07-27 8:52 ` Andy Wingo
2010-08-01 18:44 ` Andreas Rottmann
2010-08-01 19:57 ` Andy Wingo [this message]
2010-08-01 22:06 ` No Itisnt
2010-08-02 7:11 ` Andy Wingo
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