Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2003 00:48:18 -0800 From: Juli Mallett <jmallett@FreeBSD.org> To: David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie> Cc: Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>, Bakul Shah <bakul@bitblocks.com>, Mark Murray <mark@grondar.org>, current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: rand() is broken Message-ID: <20030203004818.A90944@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <200302030844.aa84195@salmon.maths.tcd.ie>; from dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie on Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 08:44:18AM %2B0000 References: <20030202160227.B62390@FreeBSD.org> <200302030844.aa84195@salmon.maths.tcd.ie>
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* De: David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie> [ Data: 2003-02-03 ]
[ Subjecte: Re: rand() is broken ]
> > > FWIW - AIX aggrees with Solaris.
>
> > Endiannes, or an SVR4 implementation difference?
>
> OS X agrees with FreeBSD i386. In fact, FreeBSD sparc64 and FreeBSD
> alpha are all the same too, so it seems the code isn't too sensitive
> to byteorder or wordsize.
>
> Bakul's comments on who agrees with BSD 4.{2,3,4}-* probably explain
> the differences.
*Nod* when I saw that message, I got it :)
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