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- Subject: Re: [proposal] Concerns about math.random
- From: Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo <lhf@...>
- Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2014 12:31:24 -0300
> On Mac OS X the man page reads:
> These interfaces are obsoleted by arc4random(3).
>
> I'd bet my bottom-dollar rand is calling arc4random() internally. I
> bet you my next paycheck rand() as an interface is deprecated to keep
> people from using it on older systems with poorer implementations :-)
Please send me a check. :-)
https://www.opensource.apple.com/source/Libc/Libc-320.1.3/stdlib/FreeBSD/rand.c
