From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.5 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID, PP_MIME_FAKE_ASCII_TEXT autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: 103376,c76113b004e50a06 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: "Jean-Pierre Rosen" Subject: Re: Gnat Chat, Random Numbers in GNAT Date: 2000/01/26 Message-ID: <86nap3$dtj$1@wanadoo.fr>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 577915520 References: <388C6DE0.73DDD6BE@earthlink.net> X-Priority: 3 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2014.211 X-Complaints-To: abuse@wanadoo.fr X-Trace: wanadoo.fr 948907619 14259 164.138.50.100 (26 Jan 2000 17:26:59 GMT) Organization: Adalog X-MSMail-Priority: Normal NNTP-Posting-Date: 26 Jan 2000 17:26:59 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-01-26T17:26:59+00:00 List-Id: Kent Paul Dolan a �crit dans le message : sYyj4.804$dw3.37978@news.wenet.net... > Thanks, Jeff. No, as I said earlier, my 1962-era random number generator > testing experience is pretty useless today, and I'm more than willing to > go ahead on the advice of others. I've just been burned a dozen or more > times by RNGs delivered as part of compilers and interpreters that were > of very low quality, so I wanted to see if someone else had "tried" before > I "buyed"(sic). I don't have any reason to distrust the gnat implementation, > I just needed some help to trust it; I'm happy to hear that Dr. Dewar and > the rest of the ACT troups have done their usual professional job. Do not forget we are in the Ada world here! There ARE tests for the RNG in the validation suite, and GNAT is validated for the Numerics annex! -- --------------------------------------------------------- J-P. Rosen (Rosen.Adalog@wanadoo.fr) Visit Adalog's web site at http://pro.wanadoo.fr/adalog