GNU bug report logs - #38753
27.0.60; cl--random-state uncontrolled growth due to bignums

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Christopher Wellons <wellons <at> nullprogram.com>

Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2019 17:13:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 27.0.60

Done: Mattias Engdegård <mattiase <at> acm.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #19 received at 38753 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Mattias Engdegård <mattiase <at> acm.org>
To: Pip Cet <pipcet <at> gmail.com>, Christopher Wellons <wellons <at> nullprogram.com>, 
 Philipp <p.stephani2 <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 38753 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#38753: 27.0.60; cl--random-state uncontrolled growth due to
 bignums
Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2019 15:09:30 +0100

> I might be wrong, but it looks to me like cl-random and Frandom are currently both limited to small integers (< 31 bits and fixnum range, respectively) and we don't have a random number generator that will do the right thing for
> (random 100000000000000000000000000000000000000000000) 

Thank you for noticing this! It definitely merits a separate bug (or two).
This bug report was last modified 5 years and 140 days ago.

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