[Randtest-develop] Fw: randtest 1.0 feedback (fwd)

[Mike R. <er...@es...>]

I already answered Markus and thanked him for the note.  I think that it
should be straight forward to use conditional compilation to use long long
for gcc compilers and __int64 for windows.  It sounds like there really
are other people out there who would like to see this version fly, so I
hope you all have time in the future to make it work for lots of different
platforms!

Patience, persistence, truth,=20
Dr. mike


----- Original Message -----
From: "Markus Walther" <Mar...@as...>
To: <ro...@ne...>
Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2002 10:00 AM
Subject: randtest 1.0 feedback


Hi Mike

I had a look at your 'randtest' SW because a year ago I was checking the
NIST random test suite and this test suite didn't convince me.  One thing
was that it was difficult to build the test suite on a Windows platform
which is actually the platform we have to use.

I tried to build randtest with MS Visual Studio 6.0. I attach to this mail
the output of the building process. Most warnings are easy to remove.
These are removed in the attached source files. I suggest to write for
every module a source and a header file. This makes it a lot easier to
re-use the code later.

I could not build the software MS Visual Studio 6.0 because the compiler
does not support the 'long long' type definition. So far I didn't find out
if it is really necessary to to have 64 bit intgers or not. A workaround
for Microsofts Visual Studio compiler would be to use the '__int46' type.

I hope this helps.

Regards,
Markus







Markus Walther

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