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Subject: Re: rand() and srand() broken?
From: Jens Alfke <email@hidden>
Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2009 10:45:42 -0800


On Nov 25, 2009, at 9:26 AM, Derek Gaston wrote:

Hello everyone... I've been struggling with rand and srand on OSX 10.6 and 10.5. It seems to me that something is terribly broken.

You shouldn't be using rand; it's not a good PRNG and it was obsoleted ages ago by random(). Even the man page tells you not to use it:

RAND(3) BSD Library Functions Manual RAND(3)

NAME
     rand, rand_r, srand, sranddev -- bad random number generator
...
DESCRIPTION
     These interfaces are obsoleted by random(3).

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