[Bug-gsl] [bug #54077] usage of atol in gsl-randistdoes not allow to pass big seed

[Jerome BENOIT]

URL:
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                 Summary: usage of atol in gsl-randistdoes not allow to pass
big seed
                 Project: GNU Scientific Library
            Submitted by: jgmb
            Submitted on: Thu 07 Jun 2018 06:18:09 AM CEST
                Category: Runtime error
                Severity: 3 - Normal
        Operating System: Debian
                  Status: None
             Assigned to: None
             Open/Closed: Open
                 Release: 2.4.90
         Discussion Lock: Any

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Details:

Seeds greater than LONG_MAX are interpreted correctly by gsl-randist: the old
atol may be replaced by strtoul.

Please see the attached patch.

hth,
Jerome



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Date: Thu 07 Jun 2018 06:18:09 AM CEST  Name:
0001-replace-atol-by-strtoul-in-gsl-randist.c.patch  Size: 680B   By: jgmb

<http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/download.php?file_id=44314>

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