random, srandom, and initstate

[Joel Sherrill]

Hi,

I have been looking around for an implementation
to port to newlib.  This is a link to the
FreeBSD version.

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/~checkout~/src/lib/libc/stdlib/random.c?rev=1.25.12.1;content-type=text%2Fplain

It is OK license-wise.  But I was curious if

(1) It's use of /dev/random and gettimeofday
     as possible seed sources can be accomodated
     in newlib.  Probably need to be disabled
     via some conditional compilation.

(2) Should I go ahead and modify them to be
     the _r versions and have the non-_r version
     call those with static variables?

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