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Re: [PATCH v2][BZ 14561] Separate rand and random seeds.


> Is this because you're expecting applications to depend on the
> current implementation's behaviour?

Knowingly doing so seems unlikely.  But subtle implicit expectations are
possible and should be presumed.  This is the soul of conservatism.

> No such guarantee ever existed. Do we really need new symbol versions?

It was well-established and understood that rand/srand were just aliases.
Yes, we need new symbol versions.


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