Re: [PATCH 1/2] simple random data generator for tests

From: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: Apr 11, 2007, 17:42 UTC
Message-ID: <20070411174205.GQ5436@spearce.org>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.0.98.0704111330120.28181@xanadu.home>

Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org> wrote:

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>  Makefile         |    7 +++++--
>  test-genrandom.c |   34 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  2 files changed, 39 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 test-genrandom.c

A change to .gitignore would also be nice.  ;-)

> +	unsigned long count, next = 0;

What about wraparound? Could this produce different results on a 32 bit system and a 64 bit system, due to the difference in size of unsigned long?

-- 
Shawn.