Date: Sun, 02 Feb 2003 17:11:46 -0800 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> Cc: Bakul Shah <bakul@bitblocks.com>, Mark Murray <mark@grondar.org>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: rand() is broken Message-ID: <3E3DC1D2.C8EE85BB@mindspring.com> References: <200302022106.h12L6naX051530@grimreaper.grondar.org> <200302022159.QAA13933@wellington.cnchost.com> <20030202223725.GA72744@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <3E3DB9B3.A233B848@mindspring.com> <20030203004951.GA73497@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
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Steve Kargl wrote: > On Sun, Feb 02, 2003 at 04:37:07PM -0800, Terry Lambert wrote: > > I can fire up my HP/UX and SunOS 4.1.3-U1 boxes too, if you need > > those, but I'm pretty sure the reason you got a different answer > > for newer Solaris was because it uses the SVR4 code, instead. > > That's the whole point! You should not expect the > output from random() for a given seed to produce the > same sequence of numbers on different platforms. No, the point is that *you* think I should not expect it, when historically, whether I *should* or not, I've been able to. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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