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From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>
To: Jason Smethers <jason@smethers.net>
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Subject: Re: BSD libc for Linux?
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On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 11:37:51AM -0500, Jason Smethers wrote:
> The statistical differences may be a result of your programs use of the
> rand() family. Linux's GNU libc decided not to implement these functions =
for
> backwards compatibility. Instead it aliases these functions to the random=
()
> family.

We don't use randomness anywhere in this code so that's not it.

-- Brooks

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