Re: Bart, a tcc "issue"

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Richard Damon <Richard@Damon-Family.org> writes:
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> I will also say that the standard rand() function shouldn't be used if
> you need a random number with known good characteristics, as the
> Standard doesn't define much in the way of requirements on rand(), and
> may implementations at least used to just use the example out of K&R
> which was a simple 15 bit LCG which is about as minimal as you can get
> for a random number generator.

The standard also includes a sample algorithm, probably the same as
the one in K&R.  And some implementations, particularly the one used
by NetBSD, are even worse than the sample algorithm in the standard,
returning alternating even and odd numbers.  The low-order 2 bits
repeat with a cycle length of 4, the low-order 3 bits with a cycle
length of 8, and so on.

https://github.com/Keith-S-Thompson/crude_rand_test

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Bart, a tcc "issue" DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2019-11-06 18:40 -0500
  Re: Bart, a tcc "issue" Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2019-11-07 00:03 +0000
    Re: Bart, a tcc "issue" Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2019-11-07 00:06 +0000
    Re: Bart, a tcc "issue" Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2019-11-07 01:44 +0000
  Re: Bart, a tcc "issue" James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2019-11-07 10:05 -0500
    Re: Bart, a tcc "issue" DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2019-11-07 13:22 -0500
    Re: Bart, a tcc "issue" DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2019-11-08 09:19 -0500
      Re: Bart, a tcc "issue" James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2019-11-08 11:03 -0500
  Re: Bart, a tcc "issue" Manfred <noname@add.invalid> - 2019-11-07 18:22 +0100
    Re: Bart, a tcc "issue" Manfred <noname@add.invalid> - 2019-11-07 18:30 +0100
  Re: Bart, a tcc "issue" Richard Damon <Richard@Damon-Family.org> - 2019-11-08 20:51 -0500
    Re: Bart, a tcc "issue" Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2019-11-08 20:59 -0800
      Re: Bart, a tcc "issue" Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2019-11-09 23:16 +0000
        Re: Bart, a tcc "issue" Richard Damon <Richard@Damon-Family.org> - 2019-11-09 20:27 -0500
          Re: Bart, a tcc "issue" Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2019-11-10 01:38 +0000
            Re: Bart, a tcc "issue" Richard Damon <Richard@Damon-Family.org> - 2019-11-09 20:59 -0500
              Re: Bart, a tcc "issue" Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2019-11-09 19:22 -0800
          Re: Bart, a tcc "issue" Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2019-11-10 03:04 +0000
            Re: Bart, a tcc "issue" Richard Damon <Richard@Damon-Family.org> - 2019-11-09 23:04 -0500
              Re: Bart, a tcc "issue" Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2019-11-10 13:15 +0000
        Re: Bart, a tcc "issue" Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2019-11-10 06:04 -0800
        Re: Bart, a tcc "issue" Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2019-11-10 07:49 -0800
          Re: Bart, a tcc "issue" Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2019-11-10 17:49 +0000
      Re: Bart, a tcc "issue" "Chris M. Thomasson" <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com> - 2019-11-11 02:44 -0800
        Re: Bart, a tcc "issue" James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2019-11-11 13:57 -0500
          Re: Bart, a tcc "issue" "Chris M. Thomasson" <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com> - 2019-11-14 16:51 -0800
        Re: Bart, a tcc "issue" Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2019-11-28 16:03 -0800

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