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[Chicken-users] Re: Chicken fails to build on Windows (mingw)


From: felix
Subject: [Chicken-users] Re: Chicken fails to build on Windows (mingw)
Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2009 15:05:13 +0000 (UTC)
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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






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