[Ecls-list] Re: Still seeing (random <larger integer>) ==> 0

[Paul F. Dietz]

Julian Stecklina wrote:
> On Sat, 26 Feb 2005 21:15:13 -0600
> "Paul F. Dietz" <dietz at dls.net> wrote:
> 
> 
>>bash-2.05b$ ls -l /usr/local/bin/ecl
>>-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         3700 Feb 26 21:10
>>/usr/local/bin/ecl bash-2.05b$ /usr/local/bin/ecl
>>ECL (Embeddable Common-Lisp) 0.9e
>>Copyright (C) 1984 Taiichi Yuasa and Masami Hagiya
>>Copyright (C) 1993 Giuseppe Attardi
>>Copyright (C) 2000 Juan J. Garcia-Ripoll
>>         ECL is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
>>under certain conditions; see file 'Copyright' for details.
>>Type :h for Help.  Top level.
>> > (random 100000000000000)
>>0
>> > (random (1+ most-positive-fixnum))
>>0
>> > (random (1+ most-positive-fixnum))
>>0
>> >
> 
> 
> I cannot reproduce this with a current ECL from CVS on FreeBSD 5.3.

I was running this on Redhat 9 (with ecl from cvs).

Configuring with --enable-local-gmp or --disable-local-gmp makes no
difference.

Any other suggestions on things I might try?

	Paul