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From: gordon%stats.ucl.ac.uk@NSS.CS.UCL.AC.UK (Gordon Joly Statistics UCL)
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Subject: Failed assert libg++ 1.34.
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Date: 11 Mar 89 17:06:41 GMT
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On a SUN-3/160, running SunOS 3.4, g++1.34 (made with gcc 1.34),
"config.gcc sun3" for both, test10 of the test suite gives an error.

% test10
five random ACG integers:
1525072166 1954057046 3406008937 226879594 4107049426 
five random MLCG integers:
1341853672 83475514 936613571 888739672 2097844081 
Binomial r1( 100, 0.50, &gen1) ...
five samples:
Failed assertion result.d < 1.0 && result.d >= 0 at line 77 of `../g++-include/RNG.h'.
IOT trap

This bug has also turned up in at least one user program.
Gordon.

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