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mickelson / attract

A graphical front-end for command line emulators that hides the underlying operating system and is intended to be controlled with a joystick or gamepad.

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issue with srand #533

Closed keilmillerjr closed 5 years ago

keilmillerjr commented 5 years ago

albertodemichelis/squirrel - srand #172

Having an issue with srand.

time() is generating unique times, verified printing to console.
srand(time()) is generating the same seed every time.

srand(0) generates a seed, but srand with anything else as a parameter creates a different but non unique seed. I can only obtain two different seeds. Any ideas? Here’s a link to my project rantro-intro.

keilmillerjr commented 5 years ago

Apparently seems need to be vastly different to provide proper results. Time in seconds is not enough. I looked at some python libraries for reference. Thank you.