Subject: Re: Random no. problem
From: Michael Meissner <[email-masked]>
To: "J. J. Farrell" <[email-masked]>
Cc: Cygwin Mailing List <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2000 18:17:26 -0400

On Wed, Jul 05, 2000 at 03:11:39PM -0700, J. J. Farrell wrote:
> > From: Michael Meissner <[email-masked]>
> > 
> > On Wed, Jul 05, 2000 at 02:32:24PM -0400, DJ Delorie wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Is there a way i can get the same random numbers on Windows NT 4 and
> > > > Sun/SGI ?
> > > 
> > > You can write your own random number generator, and use it instead of
> > > the system's generator.  Otherwise, there is *no* standard for random
> > > number generators.
> > 
> > Actually the ISO C standard mandates the algorithm for the weaker 'rand' and
> > 'srand' functions.
> 
> Is that new in C99 (or whenever the second version was ratified)?
> C89 includes an example implementation, but doesn't mandate any
> particular algorithm anywhere that I can see.

Ok, I'm obviously misremembering things.  Obviously the thing to do is write
your own random number generator, or adapt one of the ones in the libraries,
changing names, assuming you can live with the copyright.

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