Bug#1124627: mawk on arm64 ignores srand(), produces same results for rand()
Richard Kojedzinszky <[email protected]>
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Package: mawk Version: 1.3.4.20250131-1 Severity: normal X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected], [email protected] User: [email protected] Usertags: arm64 Running `mawk 'BEGIN {print rand()}'` on Debian Trixie on arm64, produces the same results. It is expected (and documented) that srand() is called implicitly. And on Bookworm or on amd64, this works as expected. Easy to reproduce using docker: ``` $ docker run -it --rm --platform linux/arm64 debian:trixie sh -c 'for i in 1 2 3 4; do mawk "BEGIN {print rand()}"; sleep 1; done' 0.118709 0.118709 0.118709 0.118709 ``` ``` $ docker run -it --rm --platform linux/amd64 debian:trixie sh -c 'for i in 1 2 3 4; do mawk "BEGIN {print rand()}"; sleep 1; done' 0.301452 0.968917 0.975551 0.0758413 ``` ``` $ docker run -it --rm --platform linux/amd64 debian:bookworm sh -c 'for i in 1 2 3 4; do mawk "BEGIN {print rand()}"; sleep 1; done' 0.133928 0.991352 0.852069 0.211199 ``` ``` $ docker run -it --rm --platform linux/arm64 debian:bookworm sh -c 'for i in 1 2 3 4; do mawk "BEGIN {print rand()}"; sleep 1; done' 0.5202 0.878447 0.73942 0.956202 ``` -- System Information: Debian Release: 13.2 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: arm64 (aarch64) Kernel: Linux 6.12.57+deb13-amd64 (SMP w/16 CPU threads; PREEMPT) Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_WARN, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: unable to detect Versions of packages mawk depends on: ii libc6 2.41-12 mawk recommends no packages. mawk suggests no packages. -- no debconf information