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Re: * NEWS: Mention 2011-02-08 change to stdlib.


From: Paul Eggert
Subject: Re: * NEWS: Mention 2011-02-08 change to stdlib.
Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2011 10:44:02 -0800
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On 02/19/2011 08:13 AM, Simon Josefsson wrote:

> we should try to make gnulib's stdlib.h set RAND_MAX if it is not available
> from the system's stdlib.h.

If it's cheap, that'd be fine, but if it's expensive to determine this
at configure-time I don't see why.  There aren't practical instances
of programs that use (or would use) the stdlib module because they
want RAND_MAX but at the same time they don't use random_r or rand
or etc.  If it's only a theoretical need, I wouldn't worry about it.



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