On Wed, 17 Mar 2004, Rodent of Unusual Size wrote: > Randy Kobes wrote: > > > > I couldn't find the _random or _srandom symbols in a > > system library, but changing these to rand() and srand() > > in mod_random_chunk.c seems to work OK. > > mm. i've ifdef'd those for WIN32 and will commit it; if anyone > cares to verify that s/rand() are universally suitable replacements > for s/random(), the ifdef can go. > > thanks, randy!
I found this in the rand man page on Linux: The versions of rand() and srand() in the Linux C Library use the same random number generator as random() and srandom(), so the lower-order bits should be as random as the higher-order bits. However, on older rand() implementations, the lower-order bits are much less random than the higher-order bits. So it looks like they're not equivalent on older implementations. -- best regards, randy
