gwynne Fri Jun 15 01:07:15 2007 UTC
Modified files:
/phpdoc/en/reference/math/functions mt-srand.xml
Log:
Document BC break in 5.2.1 (fixes bug #40724)
http://cvs.php.net/viewvc.cgi/phpdoc/en/reference/math/functions/mt-srand.xml?r1=1.11&r2=1.12&diff_format=u
Index: phpdoc/en/reference/math/functions/mt-srand.xml
diff -u phpdoc/en/reference/math/functions/mt-srand.xml:1.11
phpdoc/en/reference/math/functions/mt-srand.xml:1.12
--- phpdoc/en/reference/math/functions/mt-srand.xml:1.11 Sat Mar 31
19:18:23 2007
+++ phpdoc/en/reference/math/functions/mt-srand.xml Fri Jun 15 01:07:15 2007
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
-<!-- $Revision: 1.11 $ -->
+<!-- $Revision: 1.12 $ -->
<refentry id="function.mt-srand">
<refnamediv>
<refname>mt_srand</refname>
@@ -54,6 +54,16 @@
and defaults to a random value if omitted.
</entry>
</row>
+ <row>
+ <entry>Since 5.2.1</entry>
+ <entry>
+ The Mersenne Twister implementation in PHP now uses a new seeding
+ algorithm by Richard Wagner. Identical seeds no longer produce the same
+ sequence of values they did in previous versions. This behavior is not
+ expected to change again, but it is considered unsafe to rely upon it
+ nonetheless.
+ </entry>
+ </row>
</tbody>
</tgroup>
</informaltable>