Blank "%%+" lines in DSCs causes segfaulting

2005-12-03 Thread Sean M. Burke
() #11 0x00a2c7d4 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libkghostviewlib.so.0 #12 0xfffb in ?? () #13 0x0820f68c in ?? () #14 0xbfffd788 in ?? () #15 0x00a1e812 in dsc_init () from /usr/lib/libkghostviewlib.so.0 On that machine, "gs -v" says GNU Ghostscript 7.07 (2003-05-17) Clearly the workaround is

feature request: Pre-seeding the random number generator

2006-10-21 Thread Sean M. Burke
This is a feature request: I'd really really appreciate if you could make the random number generator in ghostscript pre-seeded. (Perl has been doing this for about ten years-- in the surprisingly rare circumstances where programmers want /predictable/ pseudorandomness, they just need to explicit

Re: feature request: Pre-seeding the random number generator

2006-10-27 Thread Sean M. Burke
On 10/22/2006 03:14 AM, Didier LINK wrote: Le samedi 21 octobre 2006 à 14:56 -0800, Sean M. Burke a écrit : This is a feature request: I'd really really appreciate if you could make the random number generator in ghostscript pre-seeded. Why do you need this enhancement exactly ? I li