Date: Sun, 02 Feb 2003 18:52:44 +0000 From: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.org> To: "Andrey A. Chernov" <ache@nagual.pp.ru> Cc: phk@freebsd.org, Doug Barton <DougB@freebsd.org>, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: rand() is broken Message-ID: <200302021852.h12IqiaX049893@grimreaper.grondar.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 02 Feb 2003 21:38:26 %2B0300." <20030202183826.GA66487@nagual.pp.ru>
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"Andrey A. Chernov" writes: > On Sun, Feb 02, 2003 at 19:32:50 +0100, phk@freebsd.org wrote: > > > Anyway, last time we discussed this, I think we stuck with the > > rand() we had because we feared that people were using it's > > repeatable well documented sequence of random numbers in regression > > testing. > > As documented, it must be repeatable across the calls for same seed, > that is all. It not means repeatable accross platforms or across > different OS versions. In fact it is already not repeatable across > different OS'es, so regression is limited. Also, regression must not > stop bugs fixing progress in anycase. Given a particular seed, it is repeatable across anything that can compile C. M -- Mark Murray iumop ap!sdn w,I idlaH To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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