Re: [ANN] lua-arc4random v1.0
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- Subject: Re: [ANN] lua-arc4random v1.0
- From: Jean-Luc Jumpertz <jean-luc@...>
- Date: 2015年1月21日 21:30:18 +0100
> Le 21 janv. 2015 à 20:56, Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo <lhf@tecgraf.puc-rio.br> wrote :
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>> Interesting approach, as math.random(), based on ansi C `rand()`, isn't really considered as a good random generator.
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> Lua 5.3 uses POSIX random instead of rand, in POSIX platforms.
>
>> Personally, I did something analog, but as a change to the Lua source code, by defining a `luai_rand` macro in `luaconf.h`:
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> Lua 5.3 now supports macros l_rand and l_srand which can be set by the builder.
>
Thanks for the information.
This makes one more reason to migrate my code base to Lua 5.3 very soon. :-)
JLJ