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Date: Fri, 20 Jan 1995 15:58:39 -0500
From: Thomas David Rivers <ponds!rivers@dg-rtp.dg.com>
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To: bde@zeta.org.au, freebsd-bugs@freefall.cdrom.com,
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Subject: Re: Serious problems in drand48().
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> 
> >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
> 

 As was pointed out - I neglected to mention this was in 2.0R.  Also,
I'm not linking with -lmsun, just the standard C library.

	- Dave Rivers -