From: Alexandre Pilkiewicz <alexandre.pilkiewicz@polytechnique.org>
To: "Török Edwin" <edwintorok@gmail.com>
Cc: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] portablility of random.mli in the stdlib
Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2011 14:06:34 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <BANLkTina=xhUAXb+N3f0EnNEhEigf9oBiA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4DBBF1D8.6020105@gmail.com>
2011/4/30 Török Edwin <edwintorok@gmail.com>:
> On 04/30/2011 02:14 PM, Christophe Raffalli wrote:
>
> Why should a random generator give the same results over multiple
> versions and architectures?
> Starting from same seed is useful only for debugging.
I wrote a fuzzer once: the principle is to generate random entries for
a program, and see if it crashes. When it does, instead of printing
the entry in the log file, you just remember the seed that produced
the entry. With that, you are able to reproduce the crash easily
Cheers
Alexandre Pilkiewicz
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-04-30 12:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-04-30 10:37 Christophe Raffalli
2011-04-30 11:14 ` Christophe Raffalli
2011-04-30 11:26 ` Török Edwin
2011-04-30 11:42 ` Christophe Raffalli
2011-04-30 15:38 ` Andrei Formiga
2011-04-30 12:06 ` Alexandre Pilkiewicz [this message]
2011-04-30 13:33 ` Andrew
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