Re: [Gcl-devel] More Code Cleanup...

[Robert Alan Byer]

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>> >      return mrand48 () | (mrand48 () << 32);
>> >    .......................^
>>
>> This looks a little alarming.  It would appear that there is some
>> fixed size misconfiguration going on.  My 32 bit machine does not
>> select this version of random.c, so I don't have this code in my
>> build.  Perhaps you can see what type mrand48 is declared, and why the
>> code thinks it can shift it be 32 bits.  (It would seem that a 48bit
>> object would be a likely candidate.  But apparently the compiler does
>> not agree.)
>
>In an old version of the GNU C Library there was a bug that caused
>mrand48() to return only the lower bits of the result.  It got into a
>Red Hat release at one point and therefore became quite widespread.
>This looks like it might be some sort of workaround for that.
>

This is probably the case as I'm not using GNU C but the latest version of 
the DEC C compiler.


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