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From: "allachan at au1 dot ibm.com" <sourceware-bugzilla@sourceware.org> To: glibc-bugs@sourceware.org Subject: [Bug libc/4403] strfry() gives skewed distributions Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2014 03:42:00 -0000 [thread overview] Message-ID: <bug-4403-131-DXEkNws6X3@http.sourceware.org/bugzilla/> (raw) In-Reply-To: <bug-4403-131@http.sourceware.org/bugzilla/> https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=4403 paxdiablo <allachan at au1 dot ibm.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |allachan at au1 dot ibm.com --- Comment #10 from paxdiablo <allachan at au1 dot ibm.com> --- Well, nothing in the doco (http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_node/strfry.html) for strfry() stated that all combinations would be equally likely. The only mention of uniform distribution was that it was used to do the swaps themselves, not that the results would be uniformly distributed. In any case, when I make stir fry, it's rarely distributed perfectly. Having said that, Ulrich probably spent more time complaining about the patch than it would have taken to just put the damn thing in :-) I have to go with Reuben here. If it's a joke, get rid of it, it has no place in a serious piece of software. If not, we should be willing to accept patches that make it better in some way, given any constraints from elsewhere (such as time needed by maintainers to do it). -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-06-23 3:42 UTC|newest] Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top [not found] <bug-4403-131@http.sourceware.org/bugzilla/> 2010-10-31 17:47 ` awreece at gmail dot com 2011-07-26 17:26 ` kirill at shutemov dot name 2012-05-06 18:58 ` aj at suse dot de 2014-02-16 19:36 ` jackie.rosen at hushmail dot com 2014-05-28 19:46 ` schwab at sourceware dot org 2014-06-23 3:42 ` allachan at au1 dot ibm.com [this message] 2014-06-24 8:30 ` fweimer at redhat dot com 2014-07-13 22:00 ` coleharrisjohnson at gmail dot com 2015-08-27 22:03 ` [Bug string/4403] " jsm28 at gcc dot gnu.org 2015-09-04 7:17 ` slashtrooll at misc dot lka.org.lu 2022-03-26 22:42 ` sam at gentoo dot org 2022-09-21 17:10 ` gabravier at gmail dot com 2007-04-21 21:36 [Bug libc/4403] New: " aurelien at aurel32 dot net 2007-05-20 20:49 ` [Bug libc/4403] " aurelien at aurel32 dot net 2007-08-22 7:30 ` drepper at redhat dot com 2009-05-09 17:00 ` me at evancarroll dot com 2009-05-10 8:04 ` pasky at suse dot cz 2010-09-16 12:05 ` rrt at sc3d dot org
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