Re: Hunt for rand and srand implementations ;)

From: Bob Harris (plasticnitlion_at_wrappermindspring.com)
Date: 10/29/04 

Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 23:20:01 GMT

Skybuck Flying wrote:
> This search for random implementations is starting to get interesting... so
> time for a bit more professional approach ;)
>
> If you know any implementations for srand() and rand() for a platform you
> could add it to this (newsgroup) thread in this style:

Howdy, Skybuck,

What are you trying to accomplish? For example, if you want to generate a
platform independent stream of PRNs, you only need one implementation, you
call it something other than srand() and rand(), and just call it.

Bob H

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