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Re: win32 random number generator

  • From: "Merlin Moncure" <merlin(dot)moncure(at)rcsonline(dot)com>
  • To: "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
  • Cc: <pgsql-hackers-win32(at)postgresql(dot)org>
  • Subject: Re: win32 random number generator
  • Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2005 17:21:54 -0400
  • Message-id: <6EE64EF3AB31D5448D0007DD34EEB3417DD173(at)Herge(dot)rcsinc(dot)local>
> 
> Anyone care to burrow into the code and see what its problem is?
> 

got it.

Looks like this in lrand48(void):
//return ((long) _rand48_seed[2] << 15) + ((long) _rand48_seed[1] > 1);

is supposed to be this:
return (long)((unsigned long) _rand48_seed[2] << 15) + ((unsigned long)
_rand48_seed[1] >> 1);

in port\rand.c

Merlin
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