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From: ath@helios.prosys.se (Anders Thulin)
Newsgroups: gnu.ghostscript.bug
Subject: Re: GhostScript v1.2 comments
Message-ID: <406@helios.prosys.se>
Date: 29 Mar 89 06:50:24 GMT
References: <10581@ibmpcug.UUCP>
Reply-To: ath@prosys.se
Organization: Programsystem AB, Linkoping, SWEDEN
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In article <10581@ibmpcug.UUCP> thawk1@ibmpcug.UUCP (Timothy Hawkins) writes:
>
>There is a bug in the rand function on 1.2, it returns negative numbers
>which is at odds with the adobe standard, how ever it is easy to fix.
>just add an value = labs(value); inside the rand function before
>pushing the value back on the stack.. 

Just make sure that your labs() handles MIN_LONG (-MAX_LONG-1) properly.
Some of them don't: they just return it unchanged. This goes for
abs() too.
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