Subject: bug#32605: 26.1; (random) never returns negative

From: Noam Postavsky <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 04 Sep 2018 18:27:37 -0400

retitle 32605 [w64] (random) never returns negative
tags 32605 + confirmed
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Stephen Berman <[email-masked]> writes:

> On Sat, 01 Sep 2018 18:18:01 +0100 Francis Wright <[email-masked]> wrote:
>> Therefore, it should return a negative integer
>> half the time, but I have never yet seen it return a negative value.

>> In GNU Emacs 26.1 (build 1, x86_64-w64-mingw32)

> Prompted by this report, I just ran `M-: (random)' twice, with these
> results:
>
> 1407814790132564328 (#o116114401367331100550, #x13899017bb648168)
> -5902216973509885 (#o-247600437205762375, #x-14f808fa17e4fd)
>
> This was on a build from current master under GNU/Linux

This bug seems specific to 64 bit Windows builds.