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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 109d8a,232e89dd4cc3c154 X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Thread: 1014db,232e89dd4cc3c154 X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Thread: 1094ba,232e89dd4cc3c154 X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Thread: 101deb,dea70f96af442ea2 X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Thread: 103376,232e89dd4cc3c154 X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gid9ef9b79ae9,gid4516fb5702,gid8d3408f8c3,gidbda4de328f,gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news4.google.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Uno Newsgroups: sci.math,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.fortran,comp.lang.pl1,comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: KISS4691, a potentially top-ranked RNG. Date: Sun, 08 May 2011 00:34:18 -0700 Message-ID: <92mrrbF3haU1@mid.individual.net> References: <4dae2a4b$0$55577$c30e37c6@exi-reader.telstra.net> <4db90113$0$77724$c30e37c6@exi-reader.telstra.net> <91ukucFq9cU2@mid.individual.net> <91uoesFq9cU3@mid.individual.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net kGL0CsKwluInwRf5Vrwk8wyiPpNk/zhIZZpKYMpOJITge7uQC0 Cancel-Lock: sha1:d2kTevKvLJq4IK0tHLtxdpGvm2g= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110414 Thunderbird/3.1.10 In-Reply-To: <91uoesFq9cU3@mid.individual.net> Xref: g2news2.google.com sci.math:235616 comp.lang.c:127110 comp.lang.fortran:42168 comp.lang.pl1:2505 comp.lang.ada:20157 Date: 2011-05-08T00:34:18-07:00 List-Id: On 4/28/2011 8:09 PM, Ian Collins wrote: > On 04/29/11 03:01 PM, Eric Sosman wrote: >> On 4/28/2011 10:09 PM, Ian Collins wrote: >>> On 04/29/11 01:50 PM, David Bernier wrote: >> >>>> In any case, with an executable compiled with a C compiler, >>>> there's the function sizeof, which might be useful >>>> in some cases at run time. >>> >>> Being pedantic, sizeof is a compile time operator when used with >>> integral types. >> >> It's an operator, always. It's evaluable at compile time for >> any operand, integral or not, except a variable-length array (whose >> element count is not determined until run time). > > The context was integral types, I didn't want to venture anywhere near > VLAs on a cross-post! > So Ian, I wouldn't mind hearing your thoughts about corruption and empires. Are they the same thing? But to be topical, I thought I might re-write george in fortran, using the ISO_C_BINDING. Attended the first funeral after my dad's today. -- Uno