Re: [AD] rand() vs random()

[Henrik Stokseth <hensto@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Angelo Mottola wrote:

> Can we use random() instead of rand() in the test program?
> Under OSX using rand() gives really poor randomness in tests, and it's not
> nice to see. random() on the other hand performs much better. Since it
> should be supported by all the platforms Allegro runs on (can you confirm
> this? It's an stdlib function), can we replace rand() with it at least in
> test.c?
is the random number generator properly seeded with srand() where rand() 
gives you poor random numbers?
calling it on on the system driver's init method or allegro_install() 
should suffice, but grepping through allegro's sources i only find one 
occurrence of rand() and that's in colblend.c, no occurrence of srand() 
though. i beleive i have just found a bug.

Sincererly Henrik Stokseth.