From: Jonathan Wakely <jwakely.gcc@gmail.com>
To: neha.gnu.gcc@gmail.com
Cc: gcc-help <gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org>, xry111@mengyan1223.wang
Subject: Re: Should rand() return a RAND_MAX value for 32 bit target?
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2018 13:49:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAH6eHdR9sk51BbfRZxvAv21uuxDUk_T4WN2LwdhwJyn58gmcxw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4f0b1402f9c0dd7ecec3fc0b23ae46bc5387af2d.camel@mengyan1223.wang>
On Tue, 18 Sep 2018 at 14:09, Xi Ruoyao wrote:
>
> On 2018-09-18 17:52 +0530, Neha Gowda wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am trying to run the following testcase for Random Number Generator
> > function.
> > The testcase returns true when generated number is RAND_MAX and returns
> > false when its not generated.
> >
> > Command :- gcc -m32 -O2 test.c
> > ======================================================
> > #include <stdio.h>
> > #include <stdlib.h>
> >
> > int main()
> > {
> > unsigned int i;
> > float f;
> > srand(0);
> > for (i = 0; i <= RAND_MAX; i++) {
> > f = rand();
>
> There is a rounding error introduced since a float can not represent
> all integer values in [0, RAND_MAX].
>
> > if (f == RAND_MAX) {
>
> RAND_MAX is 2147483647 on 32-bit GNU/Linux. It can not be represented
> by a float.
Which leads to the question, why are you using float anyway?
rand() returns an int, not a float.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-09-18 13:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-09-18 12:22 Neha Gowda
2018-09-18 13:09 ` Xi Ruoyao
2018-09-18 13:17 ` Xi Ruoyao
2018-09-18 13:49 ` Jonathan Wakely [this message]
2018-09-18 13:46 ` Andrew Haley
2018-09-20 14:42 ` Vincent Lefevre
2018-09-20 15:05 ` Vincent Lefevre
2018-09-20 15:21 ` Liu Hao
2018-09-20 15:58 ` Vincent Lefevre
2018-09-20 16:12 ` Vincent Lefevre
2018-09-21 2:49 ` Liu Hao
2018-09-22 8:17 ` Vincent Lefevre
2018-09-22 10:08 ` Vincent Lefevre
2018-09-22 13:52 ` Liu Hao
2018-09-22 22:12 ` Vincent Lefevre
2018-09-20 15:46 ` Dennis Clarke
2018-09-20 16:16 ` Vincent Lefevre
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