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From: Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>
To: Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>, newlib@sourceware.org, cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: rand is not ISO C compliant in Cygwin
Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2023 15:25:12 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4746602.Hd9D3QOfv1@nimes> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ZVIv3oq8UU6GTa0n@calimero.vinschen.de>

Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> The rand() function would still not use locking but AFAICS that's
> not actually required by POSIX or ISO C.

Correct. Those who want an MT-safe rand-like function need to use random(),
not rand().

Bruno




  reply	other threads:[~2023-11-13 14:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-11-10 20:19 Bruno Haible
2023-11-10 21:39 ` Norton Allen
2023-11-10 22:27   ` Bruno Haible
2023-11-11 16:50     ` Allen, Norton T.
2023-11-11 18:25       ` René Berber
2023-11-11 20:18         ` Allen, Norton T.
2023-11-13 14:17 ` Corinna Vinschen
2023-11-13 14:25   ` Bruno Haible [this message]
2023-11-13 14:38     ` Corinna Vinschen
2023-11-13 16:21       ` Corinna Vinschen
2023-11-13 16:44         ` [EXTERNAL] " Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C]
2023-11-13 21:33         ` Bruno Haible
2023-11-13 22:14           ` Glenn Strauss
2023-11-14 10:20             ` Corinna Vinschen
2023-11-14 10:11           ` Corinna Vinschen
2023-11-14 11:52             ` Bruno Haible
2023-11-14 16:59               ` Corinna Vinschen
2023-11-14 18:06                 ` Bruno Haible

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