Re: random

Marco van de Voort wrote:

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In GPC, in may be very large, e.g.:

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a := Random (1000000000000000000);

Random has a 64-bit definition? Or both 64 and 32 with overloading?

The internal RNG is 32 bit, but is a 64 bit number is wanted, Random calls it twice. The `Random' function is overloaded (with compiler magic) for LongestReal and LongestCard (i.e., the longest available real and (unsigned) integer types -- this may by 64 bit, or 128 bit on 64 bit systems). Frank -- Frank Heckenbach, frank@g-n-u.de, http://fjf.gnu.de/ GPC To-Do list, latest features, fixed bugs: http://agnes.dida.physik.uni-essen.de/~gnu-pascal/todo.html