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

[Julian Stecklina]

On Sat, 05 Mar 2005 13:15:58 -0600
"Paul F. Dietz" <dietz at dls.net> wrote:

> Dave wrote:
> 
> > These work fine for me on a pentium 4, but things got wierd
> > on an amd64 64-bit installation where even low fixnums generated 0.
> > The random generator apparently expects the internal random state to
> > be clamped to 32 bits. I added some casts to advance_random_state()
> > in src/c/num_rand.d and it seems to work now.
> > You mentioned redhat 9, any chance you are on a 64-bit cpu?
> 
> I'm on a 32 bit Athlon XP+.
> 
> I have managed to make the problem go away, by specifying the
> C compiler to be gcc 2.96.  The previous version was gcc 3.2.2
> (the default in Redhat 9).  I suspect there's either a compiler
> bug or some problem in the RANDOM code that the newer, perhaps
> more C-stanard-assuming compiler is tripping up on.

> gcc --version
gcc (GCC) 3.4.2 [FreeBSD] 20040728

Works fine.

Regards,
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