Hi Marco,

Same results as Frank (diverging starting at j = 21) using SBCL 2.3.8 and
gcc 13.2.1 on an AMD Ryzen 5 3600 6-Core Processor running Linux

Sabra

On Thu, Nov 9, 2023 at 8:53 PM Marco Antoniotti <marco.antonio...@unimib.it>
wrote:

> Thanks.
>
> This is weird.  The C and Fortran versions seem to agree.
>
> Marco
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, Nov 9, 2023 at 9:49 PM Frank Gönninger | Gönninger B&T <
> frank.goennin...@goenninger.net> wrote:
>
>> Hi Marco,
>>
>>
>>
>> on AllegroCL 11.0 beta Enterprise Edition I get diverging results
>> starting at j = 21…
>>
>>
>>
>> Lisp: j = 21; ss = 0.00028959847986698150
>>
>> C:      j = 21; ss = 0.00028959847986698151
>>
>>
>>
>> FWIW …
>>
>>
>>
>> Best,
>>
>>    Frank
>>
>>
>>
>> *Von: *<owner-lisp-...@lispworks.com> im Auftrag von "Marco Antoniotti
>> (as marco dot antoniotti at unimib dot it)" <lisp-...@lispworks.com>
>> *Antworten an: *Marco Antoniotti <marco.antonio...@unimib.it>
>> *Datum: *Donnerstag, 9. November 2023 um 21:23
>> *An: *LispWorks <lisp-...@lispworks.com>, Discussion list for Common
>> Lisp professionals <pro@common-lisp.net>
>> *Betreff: *Help with bit bashing code: differences between C and CL
>>
>>
>>
>> Dear all,
>>
>>
>>
>> I am hitting a wall with the attached code in CL and C versions.  For
>> those interested, this is code lifted from Knuth's pages on random number
>> generation (https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/programs.html#rng
>> ).
>>
>> The problem is that there is a discrepancy in the "problem" loop between
>> the CL and the C and I cannot figure out why, although the culprit may be
>> that CL does not have "proper" 64 bits ints.
>>
>> I am running on LW 8.x on an Intel Mac.  I have not tried on other CL
>> implementations/platforms. I compile the C code with clang (Apple clang
>> version 15.0.0 (clang-1500.0.40.1)
>>
>>
>>
>> If you run the code, you will see that the discrepancy appears at 'j =
>> 14' in the loop.
>>
>>
>>
>> What gives?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Marco
>>
>>
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>>
>>
>>
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