From help-octave-request at che dot utexas dot edu  Tue Jan 31 02:05:53 1995
Subject: Re: rand problem
From: Martin Maechler <maechler at stat dot math dot ethz dot ch>
To: akgul at bilkent dot edu dot tr
CC: help-octave at che dot utexas dot edu
Date: Tue, 31 Jan 1995 09:05:35 +0100

>>>>> "Mustafa" == Mustafa Akgul <akgul at bilkent dot edu dot tr> writes:

    Mustafa> rand function has problems under sunos4.1.3, gcc-2.6.3,
    Mustafa> libg++-2.6.2

It works perfectly for me, I have the "same" environment as you,
	i.e.,  sunOS4.1.3
		 (actually compiled in  SunOS4.1.3_U1 kernel version)
		gcc 2.6.3,  libg++-2.6.2
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ingrid{maechler}312% octave
Octave, version 1.1.0.  Copyright (C) 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995 John W. Eaton.
This is free software with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
For details, type `warranty'.

octave:1> rand
ans = 0.33814

octave:3> quit

ingrid{maechler}313% gcc -v
Reading specs from /usr/local/lib/gcc-lib/sparc-sun-sunos4.1.3_U1/2.6.3/specs
gcc version 2.6.3

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    Mustafa> Is it a bug ?

Yes, "somewhere" (but probably not really in  octave)..

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