From owner-freebsd-alpha  Tue Nov 30 11:50:59 1999
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From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb@hub.freebsd.org>
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	Jim King on Tue, 30 Nov 1999 13:48:48 -0600)
Subject: Re: arc4random && read_random
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> 
> I hacked around the problem by adding arc4random.c to 
> sys/alpha/conf/files.alpha, and commenting out the call to read_random() in 
> arc4random.c (replacing it with "r = 0;" to initialize the return value).
> 
> I agree that implementing read_random for Alpha - even a dummy version - 
> would be a better way to do it (but my way was quicker :-).
> 
> Jim

	#ifdef __alpha__

	worked for me

jmb


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