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While rand() being crappy is true for most/all *nix systems, on Windows, this

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is different. The shifting severely screwed up its randomness. Just leave it
away and systems that only have a bad version of rand() will have to just deal
with it.


git-svn-id: https://svn.xiph.org/trunk/ezstream@12629 0101bb08-14d6-0310-b084-bc0e0c8e3800
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moritz 2007-03-04 15:50:40 +00:00
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@ -115,14 +115,7 @@ playlist_random(void)
#elif HAVE_RANDOM
ret = (unsigned int)random();
#else
/*
* Throw away the lower 12 bits; they go through a cyclic pattern.
* While this means that items in gigantic playlists won't be put
* beyond a certain distance from their original place in the list,
* it still improves the quality of the shuffler if this PRNG has
* to be used.
*/
ret = (unsigned int)rand() >> 12;
ret = (unsigned int)rand();
#endif
return (ret);