Re: RFC: mt_* functions
| From: | Rasmus Lerdorf | Date: | Sat, 04 Aug 2001 22:57:08 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: RFC: mt_* functions | ||
| References: | 1 | Groups: | php.dev |
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> On Sat, 4 Aug 2001, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote:
> >based on their seeds. If I, as an application developer, distributes a
> >regression test harness which tests my app with a specific seed expecting
> >a specific sequence and the server my app runs on has switched rand() to
> >use the mt_rand() algorithm my regression test will fail.
>
> So, if you always use mt_rand() you should be okay? Since the algorithm
> for rand() might be different from system to system..?
Sure, although rand() tends to be the same everywhere as well. At least
on all the systems I care about it is the same. Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD
and Solaris all seem to use the same algorithm.
-Rasmus