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[Bug math/710] New: initstate() does not save the current position of the previous state array
- From: "bergner at vnet dot ibm dot com" <sourceware-bugzilla at sources dot redhat dot com>
- To: glibc-bugs at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: 9 Feb 2005 16:45:59 -0000
- Subject: [Bug math/710] New: initstate() does not save the current position of the previous state array
- Reply-to: sourceware-bugzilla at sources dot redhat dot com
The initstate() call does not save the current position of the previous state,
so if we switch back with setstate(), the sequence of random numbers generated
id different than if we had never called initstate/setstate. This works on AIX,
MacOSX and FreeBSD. The test case is simple:
Peter-Bergners-Computer:~ peter$ cat rand.c
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <stdio.h>
int main (int argc, char **argv)
{
int i;
srandom(1);
for (i=0; i < 10; i++) {
printf("%d\n", (int)random());
if (argc >= 2) {
/* This should not perturb the random number sequence above */
char *os, state[128];
os = initstate (1, state, sizeof(state));
setstate (os);
}
}
return 0;
}
Expected result:
[bergner@otta bergner]$ gcc rand.c
[bergner@otta bergner]$ ./a.out
1804289383
846930886
1681692777
1714636915
1957747793
424238335
719885386
1649760492
596516649
1189641421
Incorrect result:
[bergner@otta bergner]$ ./a.out 1
1804289383
940958272
77627160
1361779697
498448585
1782601122
919270010
55938899
1340091435
476760324
Correct result on MacOSX:
Peter-Bergners-Computer:~ peter$ uname -v
Darwin Kernel Version 7.7.0: Sun Nov 7 16:06:51 PST 2004;
root:xnu/xnu-517.9.5.obj~1/RELEASE_PPC
Peter-Bergners-Computer:~ peter$ gcc rand.c
Peter-Bergners-Computer:~ peter$ ./a.out 1
1804289383
846930886
1681692777
1714636915
1957747793
424238335
719885386
1649760492
596516649
1189641421
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Summary: initstate() does not save the current position of the
previous state array
Product: glibc
Version: 2.3.4
Status: NEW
Severity: normal
Priority: P2
Component: math
AssignedTo: aj at suse dot de
ReportedBy: bergner at vnet dot ibm dot com
CC: glibc-bugs at sources dot redhat dot com
GCC build triplet: linux-i686
GCC host triplet: linux-i686
GCC target triplet: linux-i686
http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=710
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