JuliaLang/julia — pull request #9122 by rfourquet (2014-11-23 10:47:49+00:00)
Title: Implement rand(::Range{BigInt}) 

This is a rebase of #8255, with minor modifications.
The travis test doesn't pass on linux because functions only available in GMP 6 are used, but isn't version 6 a requirement now? (cf. #7957).