[armedbear-devel] Fixing PRINT.RANDOM-STATE.1

[Erik Huelsmann]

Hi Mark,

On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 9:41 PM, Mark Evenson <evenson at panix.com> wrote:

> I think all you need to serialize is a structure that contains the long
> seed for java.until.Random.  Or am I missing something?
>
>
Well, the problem I'm having with that approach is that I don't seem to have
any means to extract the seed from the Random object: it has a method
setSeed(), but not a getSeed(). Do you have any idea how?


Bye,


Erik.


> Sent from my iPad
>
> On Jul 15, 2011, at 6:59 PM, Erik Huelsmann <ehuels at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >
> > Today I was looking at fixing some of our PRINT.* failures in the ansi
> test suite.
> >
> > Hoping to get an easy start, I started looking PRINT.RANDOM-STATE.1 The
> problem shown by the test is that our RANDOM-STATEs are not printable. From
> the perspective of ABCL, that's logical: Java's Random objects are
> serializable, but as everywhere in Java, it's serialization is internal to
> the implementation. The Random object is initialized using a 'seed' long
> value, but there's no way to extract a 'seed' value from the object to be
> used to initialize an object into the same state.
> >
> > So, I'm now pondering what action to take. I'm seeing several options:
> >
> > 1. build our own pseudo random number generator with its own random state
> > 2. serialize the Random object to a byte array and use that array as some
> sort of printed representation (sure, we'll definitely need to look into
> ways to load)
> >
> > The advantage of (1) is that we can create it all in Lisp, however, it's
>  pure additional code, since we won't be leveraging what's already there.
> >
> > The advantage of (2) is that we can use what Java maintains for us and
> even better: we can use the random number generator shared between Lisp and
> Java code. I imagine the disadvantage of this solution is that the
> serialization of the random state can differ between Java versions and
> implementations.
> >
> > Any ideas??
> >
> >
> > Bye,
> >
> >
> > Erik.
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