svn commit: r300956 - head/lib/libc/stdlib

Andrey Chernov ache at freebsd.org
Tue May 31 14:25:51 UTC 2016


On 31.05.2016 17:17, Bruce Evans wrote:
> Our rand should use just 1, and it is dangerous to change RAND_MAX again,
> but can we even change the sequences?  Something might depend on
> reproducing the old sequences.

This question already arises many times. The sequence must be
reproducible during program runtime only, it is impossible to change
implementation at all otherwise. If someone needs something always
reproducible it needs to implement their own PRNG.



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