Re: [libvirt] FreeBSD, no gcc present libvirt build issue

>> >> #define RAND_MAX 0x7ffffffd > > Huh? Why is this not 2**n-1? That violates assumptions we have made, > and is WHY your compile failed. It has nothing to do with clang vs. gcc > (both compilers would fail), it has to do with your changed system > header resulting in violating assumptions that hold in ALL OTHER > IMPLEMENTATIONS, that random numbers are evenly distributed within a > range of a power of 2. > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/svn-src-head/2013-July/049076.html makes it look like the reduction in range was _intentional_? Yuck. A non-power-of-2 random generator adds needless complexity to the user.

I also intend to open a bug against POSIX to request that RAND_MAX be required to be 2**n-1, rather than relying on the assumption that everyone so far, until FreeBSD 10, has happened to meet that requirement.