From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jan 18 20:42:54 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id UAA11296 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 18 Jan 1995 20:42:54 -0800 Received: from godzilla.zeta.org.au (godzilla.zeta.org.au [203.2.228.34]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with ESMTP id UAA11289; Wed, 18 Jan 1995 20:42:48 -0800 Received: (from bde@localhost) by godzilla.zeta.org.au (8.6.9/8.6.9) id PAA15205; Thu, 19 Jan 1995 15:39:43 +1100 Date: Thu, 19 Jan 1995 15:39:43 +1100 From: Bruce Evans Message-Id: <199501190439.PAA15205@godzilla.zeta.org.au> To: freebsd-bugs@freefall.cdrom.com, freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com, ponds!rivers@dg-rtp.dg.com Subject: Re: Serious problems in drand48(). Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >I have run the following program on a Pentium and a 386sx-16 with >no floating point co-processor. >Both times it reported that drand48() incorrectly returned a value >greater than 1.0. It works on thud and on my system (a 486DX2 with [lib]msun). Bruce