qt6-bb10/tests
Thiago Macieira c90d9f95d2 QRandomGenerator: improve floating-point random generation
The previous version was good, just not optimal. Because the input was
an unsigned 64-bit number, compilers needed to generate extra code to
deal with HW instructions that only convert 64-bit signed input. And
that was useless because a double uniformly distributed from 0 to 1 can
only have 53 bits of randomness.

The previous implementation did exactly what the Microsoft libstdc++ and
libc++ implementations do. In my opinion, those implementations have an
imperfect distribution, which is corrected in this commit. In those, all
random input bigger than 0x20000000000000 has a different frequency
compared to input below that mark. For example, both 0x20000000000000
and 0x20000000000001 produce the same result (4.8828125e-4).

What's more, for the libc++ and MSVC implementations, input between
0xfffffffffffff001 and 0xffffffffffffffff results in 1.0 (probability 1
in 2⁵³), even though the Standard is very clear that the result should
be strictly less than 1. GCC 7's libstdc++ doesn't have this issue,
whereas the versions before would enter an infinite loop.

Change-Id: Ib17dde1a1dbb49a7bba8fffd14eced3c375dd2ec
Reviewed-by: Lars Knoll <lars.knoll@qt.io>
Reviewed-by: Edward Welbourne <edward.welbourne@qt.io>
2017-10-20 18:10:33 +00:00
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auto QRandomGenerator: improve floating-point random generation 2017-10-20 18:10:33 +00:00
baselineserver Allow QImage with more than 2GByte of image data 2017-07-08 08:17:13 +00:00
benchmarks Ensure result of all QTest::qWaitFor are verified 2017-10-05 15:15:36 +00:00
global tst_bic: Add linux-gcc-ia32 bic data for QtXml 2013-01-16 08:25:28 +01:00
manual QAbstractItemView: Make it easier to drop above and below items 2017-10-18 10:45:21 +00:00
shared Fix largefile tests on ARM and QEMU targets 2017-03-28 06:55:32 +00:00
README Doc: Fix references to Qt Test 2013-01-30 01:35:06 +01:00
tests.pro Build examples and tests only if their requirements are met 2017-03-22 15:55:55 +00:00

README

This directory contains autotests and benchmarks based on Qt Test. In order
to run the autotests reliably, you need to configure a desktop to match the
test environment that these tests are written for.

Linux X11:

   * The user must be logged in to an active desktop; you can't run the
     autotests without a valid DISPLAY that allows X11 connections.

   * The tests are run against a KDE3 or KDE4 desktop.

   * Window manager uses "click to focus", and not "focus follows mouse". Many
     tests move the mouse cursor around and expect this to not affect focus
     and activation.

   * Disable "click to activate", i.e., when a window is opened, the window
     manager should automatically activate it (give it input focus) and not
     wait for the user to click the window.