While gnulib has a module 'random_r', it does not support random()
portably. I therefore had to recommend to the recutils author to
use a different API, just for portability:
<http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-recutils/2012-01/msg00011.html>
Note that my reason for preferring random to random_r in code which must
not be reentrant is the not documented requirement of memsetting the
random_data passed to initstate_r to zeroes. Even if that trick works
with the current versions of glibc (and the random_r module from gnulib)
AFAIK nothing guarantees that it will work in the future.
So here's a module that will guarantee the availability of random() and
associated functions.
Great, thank you! :)
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Jose E. Marchesi http://www.jemarch.net
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