Better seed support for (random).
authorPaul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Sat, 1 Sep 2012 01:04:26 +0000 (18:04 -0700)
committerPaul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Sat, 1 Sep 2012 01:04:26 +0000 (18:04 -0700)
commit0e23ef9ddeefadcba94824c09e412c961de283e7
tree8bd5c2973ce8d2f96b727b2eed8b4603a577a141
parent5bf647499a5f6d08ac8aa4809ebce22acf1330b3
Better seed support for (random).

* doc/lispref/numbers.texi (Random Numbers): Document new behavior of
the calls (random) and (random STRING).
* etc/NEWS: Document new behavior of (random), (random "string").
* lisp/play/5x5.el, lisp/play/animate.el, lisp/play/cookie1.el:
* lisp/play/dissociate.el, lisp/play/doctor.el, lisp/play/dunnet.el:
* lisp/play/gomoku.el, lisp/play/landmark.el, lisp/play/mpuz.el:
* lisp/play/tetris.el, lisp/play/zone.el:
* lisp/calc/calc-comb.el (math-init-random-base):
* lisp/play/blackbox.el (bb-init-board):
* lisp/play/life.el (life):
* lisp/server.el (server-use-tcp):
* lisp/type-break.el (type-break):
Remove unnecessary call to (random t).
* lisp/net/sasl.el (sasl-unique-id-function):
Change (random t) to (random), now that the latter is more random.
* lisp/play/life.el (life-initialized): Remove no-longer-needed var.
* lisp/gnus/gnus-sync.el (gnus-sync-lesync-setup):
* lisp/gnus/message.el (message-canlock-generate, message-unique-id):
Change (random t) to (random), now that the latter is more random.
* lisp/org/org-id.el (org-id-uuid):
Change (random t) to (random), now that the latter is more random.
* src/emacs.c (main): Call init_random.
* src/fns.c (Frandom): Set the seed from a string argument, if given.
Remove long-obsolete Gentzel cruft.
* src/lisp.h, src/sysdep.c (seed_random): Now takes address and size, not long.
(init_random): New function.
33 files changed:
doc/lispref/ChangeLog
doc/lispref/numbers.texi
etc/ChangeLog
etc/NEWS
lisp/ChangeLog
lisp/allout-widgets.el
lisp/calc/calc-comb.el
lisp/gnus/ChangeLog
lisp/gnus/gnus-sync.el
lisp/gnus/message.el
lisp/net/sasl.el
lisp/org/ChangeLog
lisp/org/org-id.el
lisp/play/5x5.el
lisp/play/animate.el
lisp/play/blackbox.el
lisp/play/cookie1.el
lisp/play/dissociate.el
lisp/play/doctor.el
lisp/play/dunnet.el
lisp/play/gomoku.el
lisp/play/landmark.el
lisp/play/life.el
lisp/play/mpuz.el
lisp/play/tetris.el
lisp/play/zone.el
lisp/server.el
lisp/type-break.el
src/ChangeLog
src/emacs.c
src/fns.c
src/lisp.h
src/sysdep.c