ID: 26381 Comment by: nunoplopes at sapo dot pt Reported By: spam at vrana dot cz Status: Open Bug Type: Documentation problem Operating System: Windows XP PHP Version: 4.3.3 New Comment:
This bug is solved! I have the latest windows snapshot on windows xp and cli returns a random value without the need to use srand. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2003-11-28 04:26:47] spam at vrana dot cz The behavior of rand() really changed in PHP 4.2.0, it is stated in Changelog. The documentation is correct. And there is coded this feature in source codes (php-src/ext/standard/rand.c, line 327 in current CVS). I don't know where the problem is, I don't understand PHP internals. I can only see that there is global variable rand_is_seeded set on line 58 and checked on line 326. Maybe the problem is that this variable wasn't initialized. I'm just guessing because as I wrote, I don't understand PHP internals. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2003-11-25 08:57:29] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Manual is wrong. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2003-11-25 08:46:41] spam at vrana dot cz iliaa, please read the manual yourself before stating bugs as bogus. As I already wrote here, the manual says: As of PHP 4.2.0, there is no need to seed the random number generator with srand() or mt_srand() as this is now done automatically. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2003-11-25 08:41:49] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thank you for taking the time to write to us, but this is not a bug. Please double-check the documentation available at http://www.php.net/manual/ and the instructions on how to report a bug at http://bugs.php.net/how-to-report.php For random numbers you MUST call srand() before rand(). ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2003-11-25 04:53:44] spam at vrana dot cz Unfortunately it behaves the same with Windows snapshots. For case it's not obvious from my fist comment - if I call srand() before rand() it works well. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The remainder of the comments for this report are too long. To view the rest of the comments, please view the bug report online at http://bugs.php.net/26381 -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=26381&edit=1
