Re: [Bug-gsl] Uninitialized bytes in RNG state.

[Brian Gough]

At Tue, 10 Feb 2009 11:58:10 +0200 (EET),
M Joonas Pihlaja wrote:
> I'm treating them as byte strings and storing those in hash 
> tables.  The hash function touches the uninitialised memory. The 
> context is that I'm exposing the rng state array to Lua in a 
> mini-GSL<->Lua binding I'm writing, where byte strings are 
> conventionally exposed as language level strings.

For now, I'd suggest that you clear the struct in your code with a
memset() after calling the gsl_rng_alloc() function, and then call
gsl_rng_set(r,0) to reinitialize it.

I may change the behavior of GSL to be what you want in the future but
I need to think about it more.

-- 
Brian Gough

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