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[ID 20010305.005] "use integer" doesn't make rand() return integers

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From:
fanf
Date:
March 5, 2001 08:15
Subject:
[ID 20010305.005] "use integer" doesn't make rand() return integers
Message ID:
E14Zxd7-000BWJ-00@hand.dotat.at

This is a bug report for perl from dot@dotat.at,
generated with the help of perlbug 1.26 running under perl 5.00503.


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The following program doesn't print a sequence of integers
as one would expect.

use integer;
for(;;) {
	print rand 10;
}
-----------------------------------------------------------------

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Site configuration information for perl 5.00503:

Configured by markm at Sun Mar  5 13:39:27 SAST 2000.

Summary of my perl5 (5.0 patchlevel 5 subversion 3) configuration:
  Platform:
    osname=freebsd, osvers=4.0-current, archname=i386-freebsd
    uname='FreeBSD freefall.FreeBSD.org 4.0-current FreeBSD 4.0-current #0: $Date$'
    hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define
    usethreads=undef useperlio=undef d_sfio=undef
  Compiler:
    cc='cc', optimize='undef', gccversion=2.95.2 19991024 (release)
    cppflags=''
    ccflags =''
    stdchar='char', d_stdstdio=undef, usevfork=true
    intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8
    d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=12
    alignbytes=4, usemymalloc=n, prototype=define
  Linker and Libraries:
    ld='cc', ldflags ='-Wl,-E -lperl -lm '
    libpth=/usr/lib
    libs=-lm -lc -lcrypt
    libc=, so=so, useshrplib=true, libperl=libperl.so.3
  Dynamic Linking:
    dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags=' -Wl,-R/usr/lib'
    cccdlflags='-DPIC -fpic', lddlflags='-Wl,-E -shared -lperl -lm '

Locally applied patches:
    

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@INC for perl 5.00503:
    /usr/libdata/perl/5.00503/mach
    /usr/libdata/perl/5.00503
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005/i386-freebsd
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005
    .

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Environment for perl 5.00503:
    HOME=/home/fanf
    LANG (unset)
    LANGUAGE (unset)
    LD_LIBRARY_PATH (unset)
    LOGDIR (unset)
    PATH=/home/fanf/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/games:/sbin:/bin
    PERL_BADLANG (unset)
    SHELL=/usr/local/bin/bash


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