Date: Tue, 30 Nov 1999 11:55:43 -0800 (PST) From: dima@rdy.com (Dima Ruban) To: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb@hub.freebsd.org> Cc: king@sstar.com, dima@rdy.com, alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: arc4random && read_random Message-ID: <199911301955.LAA70456@sivka.rdy.com> In-Reply-To: <19991130195058.2A8D114D0F@hub.freebsd.org> from "Jonathan M. Bresler" at "Nov 30, 1999 11:50:58 am"
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Jonathan M. Bresler writes: > > > > 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 Right, but I don't think that general population will be happy with this. I'd rather hack _alpha-specific_ code than code that's common for all architectures. > > jmb > -- dima To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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