amd64/81279: /usr/games/random returns every line
Adriaan de Groot
groot at kde.org
Thu May 19 14:30:07 PDT 2005
The following reply was made to PR amd64/81279; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Adriaan de Groot <groot at kde.org>
To: bug-followup at freebsd.org, vivek at khera.org
Cc:
Subject: Re: amd64/81279: /usr/games/random returns every line
Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 23:26:08 +0200
Problem is lines like
selected = (int)(denom * random() / LONG_MAX) == 0;
which cause the overflow. Replacing LONG_MAX with INT_MAX here fixes the bug.
(The same replacement should probably be done in the other two places that
LONG_MAX occurs, since the -e flag is similarly broken.)
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