From owner-freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Wed Jun 7 18:34:48 2017 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B3ED9D76813 for ; Wed, 7 Jun 2017 18:34:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tyler@tysdomain.com) Received: from mail-qt0-x231.google.com (mail-qt0-x231.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:400d:c0d::231]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 73DB37E161 for ; Wed, 7 Jun 2017 18:34:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tyler@tysdomain.com) Received: by mail-qt0-x231.google.com with SMTP id u19so16197622qta.3 for ; Wed, 07 Jun 2017 11:34:48 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=tysdomain-com.20150623.gappssmtp.com; s=20150623; h=to:from:subject:message-id:date:user-agent:mime-version :content-transfer-encoding; bh=FLbOWxOLpLkNlq1qlilqGjQaHH9TeNalAllm+NwzWYE=; b=iOisNd/+zSzfDriLhYlGqdT4+UFAFKBSPzn1qjv6W3OxYjDps+BFzuzHqlnjfeHT4M emvjb7k7L4nV7TDP45HaxQFh8lrJCftYJLsL81nl9nuKFlylQXVze7oSW28SY1eQSB0c OMzvUPQ9EkDgTjWXK9nRGHidh4uDqbdOCxefizn/o8MZ98RtV8LnCzbApK9YBCQZOHQQ bqAut79uz2dFhkyC4gXun56FipX893yoLgO4heTtUUs8TfUFSpLXXPXZ3VaXVyooQy6X CZUvrCDDR1qQe8EQluPYLYPSKZyQdzBoZoJCiMcwHPqTeiDB2GcgEFz61HuMzENVjy5o a+Zw== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:to:from:subject:message-id:date:user-agent :mime-version:content-transfer-encoding; bh=FLbOWxOLpLkNlq1qlilqGjQaHH9TeNalAllm+NwzWYE=; b=U/poS8VDXXF3tWa5ixQtClal0b5E2a0BuQe4FvIrT8LRLB34T7YfMFhAjt4LUEnd1D GS1hsfN4arnbIbAqgjmSBEes2Q0SER34NBvloxeTGaVlg1mzQuxuvTdtv23DG2Zapszn 7kOPyU0OdiuKlnjQHAVLE6HmerykftGN3yvzW98eNes1ry6gSQfiADdd564rRBU8q5cw NN16ukuV5feYszztyqkm8gbqBa1mnQtCH02vBXd//vU6dAe5QyRfJZcT6EJys/YFEV7h rRRlIy2kI4MWq/HNDDnAJpoTgYEs9EIcwzlv9vuerEdrGh2KHZBnh6PSbGCkAaUwIzN3 B1vw== X-Gm-Message-State: AODbwcC+dOZk7VDo4LdheziU4pt5CZu3IQOFF8V8Aa9FoAlKQ8lO6q6U MkGjYQDrN4xl961x9oAFUA== X-Received: by 10.200.45.231 with SMTP id q36mr10574593qta.177.1496860487244; Wed, 07 Jun 2017 11:34:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [10.201.1.53] ([69.43.66.10]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id w81sm1726891qkg.23.2017.06.07.11.34.46 for (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Wed, 07 Jun 2017 11:34:46 -0700 (PDT) To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org From: "Littlefield, Tyler" Subject: RAND_MAX is power of 2 Message-ID: <9efa6e4a-3166-58a8-99a3-02e920366f39@tysdomain.com> Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2017 14:34:48 -0400 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 07 Jun 2017 18:34:48 -0000 All: I'm trying to find another solution to this and port this server to FreeBSD. So far the only thing holding me up is that they want RAND_MAX to be a power of 2, and I don't want to just change things without knowing what I'm changing. Is there a reason for this? The code is here: https://pastebin.com/yeha7C8Y Thanks,