Pseudorandom seeding across OSs

[James Wanless]

Thanks very much again for your response, and advice
J

On 27 Aug 2011, at 11:08, Torbjorn Granlund wrote:

> James Wanless <james at grok.ltd.uk> writes:
>
>> The most important part is to include a self-contained test case that
>> illustrates the problem.
>
>  Yes, I was afraid you might say that ( :) ). If I get inspired I'll
>  look into it (I guess it's something I'll need to investigate for  
> GMP-
>  ECPP now anyway) - but I make no promises!
>
> It is possible to write GMP application code that results in all sorts
> of machine dependent behaviour.  Some GMP interfaces are inherently  
> type
> size dependent.  The _ui functions when passed a 'long', might gove
> different results due to truncation in the caller.
>
> The fact that you have written some code that exhibits apparent type
> size dependent behaviour does not in any way indicate a bug in GMP.
>
> My suggestion is that you isolate the problem, and then, if the  
> problem
> is to some extent related to GMP and you need to discuss the problem,
> you make a post here.
>
> -- 
> Torbjörn