[U-Boot] [PATCH v4 1/3] lib: add rand() function

[Wolfgang Denk]

Dear Michael Walle,

In message <201205112320.15462.michael at walle.cc> you wrote:
> 
> > This is inconsequent.  Either we assume that the user will seed
> > srand(), then y should not be initialized at all, so it goes to the
> > BSS segment and does not waste space in the binary image.  Or we want
> > to deal with cases where the user doesn call srand(), and then we
> > should provide a bit better than such a static initialization.
> 
> Again, i wanted to stick with the regular rand() srand() semantics.
> 
> http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/rand.html
> "If rand() is called before any calls to srand() are made, the same sequence 
> shall be generated as when srand() is first called with a seed value of 1."

Good point.

But then y should be initialized as 1 ?

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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