Subject: Re: ElectricFence barfs on mmap
To: Volker Stolz <stolz@hyperion.informatik.rwth-aachen.de>
From: Hubert Feyrer <hubert.feyrer@informatik.fh-regensburg.de>
List: port-sparc64
Date: 11/07/2001 13:03:23
On Wed, 7 Nov 2001, Volker Stolz wrote:
> On a second thought, using
> 
>  size_t          size = (size_t)(lrand48() % (LARGEST_BUFFER + 1));
> 
> instead of
> 
>  size_t          size = (size_t)(drand48() * (LARGEST_BUFFER + 1));
> 
> would have saved all the trouble as lrand48() is guaranteed to
> return a result in the range of 0-2^31 in the lower bits and 
> clean upper 32 bits.

Um, when you're done optimizing the patches please stuff them into a PR so
wen can add them to pkgsrc. TIA!


 - Hubert

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