Subject: Re: Regress test of divrem fails
To: Bernd Ernesti <netbsd@lists.veego.de>
From: Jaromir Dolecek <jdolecek@NetBSD.org>
List: current-users
Date: 12/19/2003 15:40:07
Bernd Ernesti wrote:
> After some more testing.
> 
> Its rev 1.23 of src/lib/libc/stdlib/random.c which change the
> output of the test.
> 
> :revision 1.23
> :date: 2003/11/26 20:44:40;  author: jdolecek;  state: Exp;  lines: +39 -3
> :improve random number generation by using largest 31-bit prime
> :as denominator; regenerate the randtbl[] with new generator
> :
> :patch provided in lib/22853 by KIHARA Hideto; code actually present
> :in libkern/random.c since 1994/06/03
> :
> :matches similar change done in glibc in 1995, and FreeBSD & OpenBSD in 1996
> 
> So, would it be okay to just change the regress Makefile to the new md5
> checksum?

Yes.

Jaromir 
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