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10.46.64 srandom ¶

POSIX specification:
https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9799919799/functions/srandom.html

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.

Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:

• This function has a slightly incompatible declaration (the return type being ‘long’ instead of ‘void’) on some platforms: Cygwin 1.5.25.
• The parameter is unsigned long instead of unsigned int on some platforms: MidnightBSD 2.0.
• This function has no effect on some platforms: OpenBSD 7.4. This platform has, instead, a function srandom_deterministic.