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On Mon, 2003-05-26 at 17:56, Angelo Mottola wrote:
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> The problem is the OSX libc rand() implementation places the most random
> bits in the higher word, while the lower word always gets values that repeat
> somewhat often. On Intel machines it seems to be the contrary.
> So (rand()+(rand()>>16)) should solve the issue...
No, same on intel. I.e., the lower bits aren't random with rand(). I
don't know where in the test program rand is used, but i usually do
(rand()>>8). Or if 15/16bit are needed, this has to be
(rand()>>8)+(rand()&0xff00) for windows.
Maybe it's time to add the "al_rand(int min, int max)" function to
Allegro?
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Elias Pschernig <elias@xxxxxxxxxx>