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| author | Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> | 2018-08-18 15:39:05 -0700 |
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| committer | Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> | 2018-08-18 15:42:00 -0700 |
| commit | 97d273033b523bc07911c848d4e8bf96cdce0c90 (patch) | |
| tree | 1def37fdbac9d108c5930a15d1538982f40b52a7 /doc/lispref/numbers.texi | |
| parent | 673b1785db4604efe81b8045a9d8ab68936af719 (diff) | |
| download | emacs-97d273033b523bc07911c848d4e8bf96cdce0c90.tar.gz | |
Document that ‘random’ is limited to fixnums
Problem reported by Pip Cet (Bug#32463#20).
* doc/lispref/numbers.texi (Random Numbers):
* src/fns.c (Frandom): Adjust doc.
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/lispref/numbers.texi')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/lispref/numbers.texi | 7 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/doc/lispref/numbers.texi b/doc/lispref/numbers.texi index ee6456b1be1..74a313e2e10 100644 --- a/doc/lispref/numbers.texi +++ b/doc/lispref/numbers.texi @@ -1236,11 +1236,10 @@ other strings to choose various seed values. This function returns a pseudo-random integer. Repeated calls return a series of pseudo-random integers. -If @var{limit} is a positive integer, the value is chosen to be +If @var{limit} is a positive fixnum, the value is chosen to be nonnegative and less than @var{limit}. Otherwise, the value might be -any integer representable in Lisp, i.e., an integer between -@code{most-negative-fixnum} and @code{most-positive-fixnum} -(@pxref{Integer Basics}). +any fixnum, i.e., any integer from @code{most-negative-fixnum} through +@code{most-positive-fixnum} (@pxref{Integer Basics}). If @var{limit} is @code{t}, it means to choose a new seed as if Emacs were restarting, typically from the system entropy. On systems |