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Date:      Tue, 8 Oct 1996 01:13:34 +0400 (MSD)
From:      "=?KOI8-R?Q?=E1=CE=C4=D2=C5=CA_=FE=C5=D2=CE=CF=D7?=" (Andrey A. Chernov) <ache@nagual.ru>
To:        j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: rand() and srand()
Message-ID:  <199610072113.BAA00770@nagual.ru>
In-Reply-To: <199610071921.VAA15800@uriah.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at "Oct 7, 96 09:21:04 pm"

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> As Warner Losh wrote:
> 
> > This tells me that if I give the same seed to srand() three times in a
> > row, I will get the same pseudo random sequence out of it.
> > 
> > If you are proposing that this change, then you are breaking existing
> > code's assumptions.  After all, it is documented to do this.
> 
> This is also what ANSI requires.  (And it requires that the default is
> the same as can be achieved by ``srand(1)''.)
> 
> Nothing else is required though.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

I completely agree.

-- 
Andrey A. Chernov
<ache@nagual.ru>
http://www.nagual.ru/~ache/



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