[Ecls-list] Small problem with random on NetBSD/Sparc64

[Bruce O'Neel]

Hi,

I'm using 0.9f, and yep, that would fix it wouldn't it.

I'll start using the CVS version now :-)

Thanks very much for all of your hard work on ecl!

cheers

bruce

On Fri, Jul 29, 2005 at 11:38:28AM +0200, Juan Jose Garcia Ripoll wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-07-29 at 09:23 +0000, Bruce O'Neel wrote:
> > In src/c/num_rand.d:
> > 
> > d = (double)(rs->random.value>>1) / (4294967296.0/2.0);
> > 
> > I can't easly find it, but, would .value happen to be a long?  If so
> > this expresion won't work when long is 8 bytes rather than 4 since
> > 4294967296.0 looks just like 2^32 in float.
> 
> If you see a few lines below, you will find that random.value is masked
> to be 32 bits long.
> 	rs->random.value = rs->random.value & 0xffffffff;
> This line might be missing in older versions of ECL.
> 
> Juanjo
> 
> 
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