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| author | thorpej <thorpej@NetBSD.org> | 2002-01-08 02:19:56 +0000 |
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| committer | thorpej <thorpej@NetBSD.org> | 2002-01-08 02:19:56 +0000 |
| commit | 10b6bfb636d313184b7e460e62040ed86609a9c8 (patch) | |
| tree | f7e704e23fcd63e48c0d4f83ed921d1a4aa8c5c9 /lib/libc/stdlib | |
| parent | 5f9568a12e2d30487e09513b712e19a3045459b7 (diff) | |
Make a note about the alignment requirement of the state array
passed to initstate(3). This is actually documented in comments
in the code.
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/libc/stdlib')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/libc/stdlib/random.3 | 9 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/stdlib/random.3 b/lib/libc/stdlib/random.3 index 3110335c4be..156253cf424 100644 --- a/lib/libc/stdlib/random.3 +++ b/lib/libc/stdlib/random.3 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $NetBSD: random.3,v 1.12 2001/09/16 01:31:53 wiz Exp $ +.\" $NetBSD: random.3,v 1.13 2002/01/08 02:19:56 thorpej Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 1983, 1991, 1993 .\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. @@ -112,7 +112,12 @@ the nearest known amount. Using less than 8 bytes will cause an error). The seed for the initialization (which specifies a starting point for the random number sequence, and provides for restarting at the same -point) is also an argument. +point) is also an argument. The state array passed to +.Fn initstate +must be aligned to a 32-bit boundary. This can be achieved by using +a suitably-sized array of ints, and casting the array to char * when +passing it to +.Fn initstate . The .Fn initstate function |
