note 28724 deleted from function.rand by aidan

From: Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2004 07:43:48 +0000
Subject: note 28724 deleted from function.rand by aidan
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Note Submitter: Antonio Marra - UniLE ---- This function has partially (and undocumentally) changed its behaviour. On PHP 4.0.6 (i586 Linux), the call rand(1,4294967295) (that's 2^32-1) gives random values in the specified range, while on PHP 4.2.3 (i586 Linux) the same call always returns a 1 (one) value. In this case the maximum value that can be used with a readable behaviour is rand(1,2147483647) (that's 2^31-1). It seems that the last argument is now interpreted as a signed int, while it was not before. In fact, other values into the 2147483647-4294967295 range seems to be "wrapped" into negative integers.

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