Subject: Re: bug#9103: 23.3.50; random* from cl does not support the whole range of integers

From: Glenn Morris <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2011 17:56:49 -0400

Leo wrote:

> As far as I can see, (random* most-positive-fixnum) only returns a 32bit
> integer on 64bit Emacs.

Why does random* even need to exist? What can it do that plain random
cannot?