From owner-freebsd-current Mon Feb 3 0:48:19 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix, from userid 931) id 5796337B401; Mon, 3 Feb 2003 00:48:18 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2003 00:48:18 -0800 From: Juli Mallett To: David Malone Cc: Steve Kargl , Bakul Shah , Mark Murray , current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: rand() is broken Message-ID: <20030203004818.A90944@FreeBSD.org> References: <20030202160227.B62390@FreeBSD.org> <200302030844.aa84195@salmon.maths.tcd.ie> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <200302030844.aa84195@salmon.maths.tcd.ie>; from dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie on Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 08:44:18AM +0000 Organisation: The FreeBSD Project X-Alternate-Addresses: , , , , X-Towel: Yes X-LiveJournal: flata, jmallett X-Negacore: Yes Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * De: David Malone [ 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 :) -- Juli Mallett AIM: BSDFlata -- IRC: juli on EFnet OpenDarwin, Mono, FreeBSD Developer ircd-hybrid Developer, EFnet addict FreeBSD on MIPS-Anything on FreeBSD To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message