On Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 07:52:35PM -0800, Andrey A. Chernov wrote: > So, monotonically increased seed->first value correlation problem remains...
I think we should commit this patch (to -current) and fix all the problems that pop up. For example, it's used in awk (which started this set of changes), and in some of the XFree86 libraries. Kris Index: stdlib/rand.c =================================================================== RCS file: /mnt2/ncvs/src/lib/libc/stdlib/rand.c,v retrieving revision 1.14 diff -u -r1.14 rand.c --- stdlib/rand.c 5 Feb 2003 21:25:50 -0000 1.14 +++ stdlib/rand.c 8 Feb 2003 06:07:55 -0000 @@ -86,6 +86,8 @@ #endif /* !USE_WEAK_SEEDING */ } +__warn_references(rand_r, + "warning: rand_r() does not produce high-quality random numbers and should not +generally be used"); int rand_r(unsigned int *ctx) @@ -99,6 +101,9 @@ static u_long next = 892053144; /* after srand(1), NSHUFF counted */ + +__warn_references(rand, + "warning: rand() does not produce high-quality random numbers and should not +generally be used"); int rand()
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