Re: Re: PRNG: Raise warning and/or provide better pseudo random generator?
| From: | Nikita Popov | Date: | Wed, 24 Feb 2016 12:00:55 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Re: PRNG: Raise warning and/or provide better pseudo random generator? | ||
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On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 1:27 AM, Yasuo Ohgaki <yohgaki@ohgaki.net> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 7:41 PM, Yasuo Ohgaki <yohgaki@ohgaki.net> wrote:
> > Any comments for adding out of range warnings to rand()/mt_rand()? If
> > nobody has comment on this, I'll write RFC for additional warnings.
> > Anyone prefer to extend rand()/mt_rand() for 64bit OSes?
>
> I'll write RFC to raise errors for invalid range, hopefully this weekend.
>
> Thank you for feedback!
>
I think it would be preferable to wait a bit -- there's clearly interest in
replacing rand/mt_rand etc with a higher quality PRNG, so maybe lets give
people time to create a proposal for that before we start throwing warnings.
Nikita