Re: [AD] Pending patches request

[Eric Botcazou <ebotcazou@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> Seeing how apparently this is a problem even in the simple test program,
> it would be a worthwhile addition. How can we expect Allegro users to
> know about rand() not working properly under MacOSX?

Yes, probably makes sense.

> But ideally, i'd like this function to return the same sequence of
> numbers across different platforms. So e.g. I could give the seed to
> someone, and if my program is run with it in DOS, Linux, OSX - it always
> would produce the same numbers, like for a random level.
> I'm sure there's someone who knows about an algorithm which could be
> used, maybe a simple one like the one posted by Paul Pridham already
> would do..

See alrand by Vincent for solid algorithms

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Eric Botcazou