Re: [AD] srand()

[Bob <ohannessian@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hein Zelle wrote:

> Peter Wang wrote:
>
>  
>
> > > I still think Allegro should have its own portable allegro_seed() and
> > > allegro_random() functions...
> > >      
> > I don't.
> >    
>
> Why? (question for both Peter and original author)
>
> Is rand() combined with srand() so unportable that allegro needs it's
> own version? 

Well, DJGPP's rand() is not so good, but it's random() is better. Why? I 
have no idea. It seem logical for me to have one call the other.
Mingw tries to duplicate MSVC's behavior, and that is to provide a 
rand() which returns only 15-bit results. This borders on uselessness.

Finally, there's some public domain code for Mersenne Twisters floating 
around. Maybe that can be included in Allegro?