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bug#38753: 27.0.60; cl--random-state uncontrolled growth due to bignums
From: |
Mattias Engdegård |
Subject: |
bug#38753: 27.0.60; cl--random-state uncontrolled growth due to bignums |
Date: |
Sun, 29 Dec 2019 15:09:30 +0100 |
> I might be wrong, but it looks to me like cl-random and Frandom are currently
> both limited to small integers (< 31 bits and fixnum range, respectively) and
> we don't have a random number generator that will do the right thing for
> (random 100000000000000000000000000000000000000000000)
Thank you for noticing this! It definitely merits a separate bug (or two).