System.Random - bugs? or am I just confused?

[Bas van Dijk]

On 17 July 2013 19:00, Hans Georg Schaathun
<georg+haskellib at schaathun.net> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have been digging into the System.Random module lately.
> Initially, I was concerned about the split method, but trying
> to understand the code and algorithm, there are a couple of
> other issues that bother me.  I hope this is the right forum
> to ask about them ...

Hi Hans, no comments on your issues yet. I just wanted to report an
issue in random I discovered 3 months ago. This is the message I send
to Ryan:

> My colleague (Utkarsh Upadhyay) got a stack-overflow in a program he
> was working on. Thomas Schilling and me traced it down to randomRs
> being to lazy which causes the following to generate a stack-overflow
> exception:
>
>  g <- getStdGen
>  randomRs (0,10::Int) g !! 1000000
>
> The attached patch fixes the bug. I also included a patch to UNPACK
> the Int32 fields into the StdGen constructor.

I added the patches to the following gist:

https://gist.github.com/basvandijk/6032630

Cheers,

Bas