[Xorp-cvs] XORP cvs commit: xorp/libxorp

Bruce M Simpson bms@spc.org
Sat, 25 Mar 2006 01:00:42 +0000


On Sat, Mar 25, 2006 at 12:51:12AM +0000, Bruce Simpson wrote:
> Log message:
> 	Define the maximum bound of the random() function as per
> 	its specification in the Single UNIX Specification V2.
> 	
> 	There is no manifest constant for this in the shipping C
> 	libraries on the platform we support, and our library code
> 	makes use of it in its definition.

Meep! MEEP! meep! mEEp!

This is quite high up in the symbol dependency graph. You may see various
objects rebuild as a result. Irritating, but this is for the greater good.

Changes to use this coming up shortly. Anything which was calculating
jitter using random_uniform() is going to be touched by this, in particular,
Windows BGP.

BMS