Re: [PATCH 0/1] zsh/random module

[Clinton Bunch <cdb_zsh@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 3/24/2024 09:11, Clinton Bunch wrote:
> I am still working on the test harness.  I'm thinking about using a C 
> program for analysis of shell output, but no current test harness does 
> anything like that.  (long double would really be helpful for larger 
> bounds, 1-20 works, 1-100 causes overflows)
I'm struggling with a test for this module.  I thought about doing a 
statistical analysis (chi-square) of output, but I can't get a 
successful p-value nearly 10% of the time.  I tried doing the same with 
return values from the base library functions and got similar bias, so 
it appears I'd just be testing the randomness of the kernel PRNG rather 
than compilation of code.

Anyone else have any ideas?