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

[Julian Stecklina]

On Sun, 27 Feb 2005 12:06:38 -0600
"Paul F. Dietz" <dietz at dls.net> wrote:

> 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?

Not at the moment. Juanjo is unavailable for this week and my insight in
most parts of ECL's interior is quite limited. :-/

Regards,
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Julian Stecklina

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