"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.

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Mark Murray
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