"Andrey A. Chernov" writes: > On Sun, Feb 02, 2003 at 19:32:50 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Anyway, last time we discussed this, I think we stuck with the > > rand() we had because we feared that people were using it's > > repeatable well documented sequence of random numbers in regression > > testing. > > As documented, it must be repeatable across the calls for same seed, > that is all. It not means repeatable accross platforms or across > different OS versions. In fact it is already not repeatable across > different OS'es, so regression is limited. Also, regression must not > stop bugs fixing progress in anycase.
Given a particular seed, it is repeatable across anything that can compile C. M -- Mark Murray iumop ap!sdn w,I idlaH To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message