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[Chicken-users] Re: Chicken fails to build on Windows (mingw)
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felix |
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[Chicken-users] Re: Chicken fails to build on Windows (mingw) |
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Mon, 24 Aug 2009 15:05:13 +0000 (UTC) |
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Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/) |
Hi, Fadi!
Hm... how did you invoke make? Did you pass "PLATFORM=mingw"?
>
> Out of curiosity, why is Chicken using these functions instead of the
> standard C rand/srand ? There shouldn't be any difference
> functionality-wise AFAIK.
Because they provide better randomness. Originally it was thought that
these functions are portable. They aren't, but we are just now finding
out.
cheers,
felix