From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 17:52:33 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] simple random data generator for tests
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.0.98.0704111348040.28181@xanadu.home>
In-Reply-To: <20070411174205.GQ5436@spearce.org>

On Wed, 11 Apr 2007, Shawn O. Pearce wrote:

> Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org> wrote:
> > ---
> >  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.  ;-)

Gah!

> > +	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?

No, because the bits we extract are below 32 bits, and the multiply 
operation will always provide the same results in the low 32 bits 
regardless.


Nicolas