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Re: Apparent issue with srand() in gawk
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Andreas Schwab |
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Re: Apparent issue with srand() in gawk |
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Sun, 15 Jun 2025 14:33:29 +0200 |
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On Jun 12 2025, Jim Mellander wrote:
> Thanks! I found that on 64 bit systems, the same issue occurs with seeds >=
> 2^63. Changing the cast of the input from 'long' to 'unsigned long'
> corrects the issue.
That just shifts the boundary from LONG_MAX to ULONG_MAX, with the same
unpredictable result.
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