In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Paul Herma n writes: >> >> > EXAMPLES >> > The following produces a drop-in replacement for the traditional >> > random() and rand() functions using arc4random(): >> > #define arc4random31() (arc4random() & 0x7FFFFFFF) >> >> Not good. Only true on 32 bit archs. > >Heh? > >random(3) produces numbers between 0 and RAND_MAX on my alpha. >random(3) produces numbers between 0 and RAND_MAX on my i386.
Well, I'm right in principle but wrong in current practice, at the very least make it: #define arc4random31() (arc4random() & RAND_MAX) -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
