On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 2:50 AM, Steve Kargl <s...@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> wrote: > On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 03:18:01PM +0300, Janne Blomqvist wrote: >> Hi, >> >> the example we provide for the usage of the random_seed intrinsic >> could be better. At least one user has already been tripped over by >> the fact that on some targets the first call to system_clock returns >> 0, resulting in a poor seed. Below is an improved(?!) example program. >> >> Ok for trunk/4.8/4.7? (Changelog + patch is of course trivial once >> there is agreement on the code itself) >> > > Looks OK to me. > > It should probably also be noted in the manual that one can get > real poor results if one does not set all seed values.
Thanks. Attached is the patch I committed following 'make pdf' testing. Committed to trunk/4.8 (after Jakub's approval on IRC)/4.7. -- Janne Blomqvist
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