> please keep the ML on Cc: - thanks. sorry wrong key > In message <201205112249.27871.mich...@walle.cc> you wrote: > > > > > > +static unsigned int y = 2463534242U; > > > > > > > > > > Hm... can we introduce at least a little entropy somewhere? > > > > > > > > Mh? A user is supposed to seed via srand(). > > > > > > Then why initialize y at all? > > > > To have a sane fallback. Maybe i should have written > > > > "A user is supposed to seed via srand() if he wan't some > > > > entropy." > > This is inconsequent. Either we assume that the user will seed > srand(), then y should not be initialized at all, so it goes to the > BSS segment and does not waste space in the binary image. Or we want > to deal with cases where the user doesn call srand(), and then we > should provide a bit better than such a static initialization.
Again, i wanted to stick with the regular rand() srand() semantics. http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/rand.html "If rand() is called before any calls to srand() are made, the same sequence shall be generated as when srand() is first called with a seed value of 1." But i'm fine with removing the initialization. -- Michael _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
