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authorTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>2000-08-07 00:51:42 +0000
committerTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>2000-08-07 00:51:42 +0000
commit9426047021651d8d7b6595c1377aef1909afcacd (patch)
tree737356deee745db64bacbdd589f1562ec9398125 /src/backend/utils/adt/float.c
parent259489bab7d01b6acc0bdc2c2938ecb22b1f5c8d (diff)
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Clean up bogosities in use of random(3) and srandom(3) --- do not assume
that RAND_MAX applies to them, since it doesn't. Instead add a config.h parameter MAX_RANDOM_VALUE. This is currently set at 2^31-1 but could be auto-configured if that ever proves necessary. Also fix some outright bugs like calling srand() where srandom() is appropriate.
Diffstat (limited to 'src/backend/utils/adt/float.c')
-rw-r--r--src/backend/utils/adt/float.c6
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/float.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/float.c
index 54735191a9f..7c06e31ed84 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/float.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/float.c
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
*
*
* IDENTIFICATION
- * $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/src/backend/utils/adt/float.c,v 1.67 2000/08/01 18:29:35 tgl Exp $
+ * $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/src/backend/utils/adt/float.c,v 1.68 2000/08/07 00:51:14 tgl Exp $
*
*-------------------------------------------------------------------------
*/
@@ -1315,7 +1315,7 @@ drandom(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
float8 result;
/* result 0.0-1.0 */
- result = ((double) random()) / RAND_MAX;
+ result = ((double) random()) / ((double) MAX_RANDOM_VALUE);
PG_RETURN_FLOAT8(result);
}
@@ -1328,7 +1328,7 @@ Datum
setseed(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
{
float8 seed = PG_GETARG_FLOAT8(0);
- int iseed = (seed * RAND_MAX);
+ int iseed = (int) (seed * MAX_RANDOM_VALUE);
srandom((unsigned int) iseed);