Re: srand and rand across different platfroms/versions

[email protected] (Abhijit Menon-Sen) Wed, 2 May 2001 21:53:35 +0530
Newsgroups perl.crypto
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 2001-05-01 23:29:46, [email protected] wrote:
>
> Will srand ($x); rand ; produce the same value (for the same $x)
> across every version of perl, and on every platform?

No.

> If not, what are all the different possiblities???

It depends on your system's rand() function (or drand48(), or whichever
variant is chosen at compile time).

- ams