From 97d273033b523bc07911c848d4e8bf96cdce0c90 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Paul Eggert
Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2018 15:39:05 -0700
Subject: Document that ‘random’ is limited to fixnums

Problem reported by Pip Cet (Bug#32463#20).
* doc/lispref/numbers.texi (Random Numbers):
* src/fns.c (Frandom): Adjust doc.
---
 src/fns.c | 9 +++------
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

(limited to 'src')

diff --git a/src/fns.c b/src/fns.c
index f6e68036413..a11de1b0827 100644
--- a/src/fns.c
+++ b/src/fns.c
@@ -56,15 +56,12 @@ DEFUN ("identity", Fidentity, Sidentity, 1, 1, 0,
 }
 
 DEFUN ("random", Frandom, Srandom, 0, 1, 0,
-       doc: /* Return a pseudo-random number.
-All integers representable in Lisp, i.e. between `most-negative-fixnum'
-and `most-positive-fixnum', inclusive, are equally likely.
-
-With positive integer LIMIT, return random number in interval [0,LIMIT).
+       doc: /* Return a pseudo-random integer.
+By default, return a fixnum; all fixnums are equally likely.
+With positive fixnum LIMIT, return random integer in interval [0,LIMIT).
 With argument t, set the random number seed from the system's entropy
 pool if available, otherwise from less-random volatile data such as the time.
 With a string argument, set the seed based on the string's contents.
-Other values of LIMIT are ignored.
 
 See Info node `(elisp)Random Numbers' for more details.  */)
   (Lisp_Object limit)
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