Fix the bug reported by Torbjorn Granlund <tege@cygnus.com>:

The documentation for mrand48 and lrand48 is mixed up.
mrand48 returns a full 32 bit number, while lrand48 only returns
31 bits.

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/lib/libc/gen/rand48.3 b/lib/libc/gen/rand48.3
index 176303d..9fadeb2 100644
--- a/lib/libc/gen/rand48.3
+++ b/lib/libc/gen/rand48.3
@@ -71,16 +71,16 @@ such that the values produced lie in the interval [0.0, 1.0).
 and
 .Fn nrand48
 return values of type long in the range
-[-2**31, 2**31-1]. The high-order (32) bits of
-r(n+1) are loaded into the returned value.
+[0, 2**31-1]. The high-order (31) bits of
+r(n+1) are loaded into the lower bits of the returned value, with
+the topmost (sign) bit set to zero.
 .Pp
 .Fn mrand48
 and
 .Fn jrand48
 return values of type long in the range
-[0, 2**31-1]. The high-order (31) bits of
-r(n+1) are loaded into the lower bits of the returned value, with
-the topmost (sign) bit set to zero.
+[-2**31, 2**31-1]. The high-order (32) bits of
+r(n+1) are loaded into the returned value.
 .Pp
 .Fn drand48 ,
 .Fn lrand48 ,