random (GNU Gnulib)

Gnulib module: random

Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:

This function is missing on some platforms: mingw, MSVC 14.
This function is only defined as an inline function on some platforms: Android 4.4.
This function is not multithread-safe on some platforms: macOS 14, FreeBSD 13.2, Solaris 11.4, Cygwin 3.4.6, Haiku.

Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:

This function has a slightly incompatible declaration (the return type being ‘int’ instead of ‘long’) on some platforms: Cygwin 1.5.25, Haiku.
When ‘srandom’ was not called, this function returns a non-deterministic sequence rather than a deterministic sequence of numbers on some platforms: OpenBSD 7.4.