fix buggy rand(RandomDevice(), Bool) #35590
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The tests might seem overkill for this particular bug, but I was writing them for #33721, so they will still be useful.
An alternative fix might be to define
read(s::IO, ::Type{Bool}) = read(s, UInt8) % Bool
instead ofread(s, UInt8) != 0
.Both definitions coincide if
Bool
s are stored in "canonical binary representation", and the definition ofread
seems to leave the result unspecified for non-canonicalBool
.