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Article #662Re: GhostScript v1.2 comments
From: Anders Thulin
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 1989 06:50
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 1989 06:50
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In article <10581@ibmpcug.UUCP> thawk1@ibmpcug.UUCP (Timothy Hawkins) writes:
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>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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