[geeks] Quick C question

Greg A. Woods woods at weird.com
Thu Jul 25 10:21:38 CDT 2002


[ On Thursday, July 25, 2002 at 00:10:19 (-0400), Joshua D Boyd wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: [geeks] Quick C question
>
> The random number generator files of the code I'm working over are
> full of magic numbers, that I don't really have names for, or really
> know what exactly they are doing.  I think I'll avoid naming them for
> now for that reason.

Why are you mucking about in a random number generator if you don't
understand the algorithm in detail?  What are you going to use those
random numbers for?  Hopefully not for anything related to security!

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