- Introduce seeding of the random number generator at startup

- Replaced all engine-side occurances of rand() with random()


git-svn-id: svn://svn.icculus.org/quake3/trunk@1561 edf5b092-35ff-0310-97b2-ce42778d08ea

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/code/client/cl_main.c b/code/client/cl_main.c
index 01c044a..08ee747 100644
--- a/code/client/cl_main.c
+++ b/code/client/cl_main.c
@@ -1306,12 +1306,8 @@ void CL_RequestMotd( void ) {
 		BigShort( cls.updateServer.port ) );
 	
 	info[0] = 0;
-  // NOTE TTimo xoring against Com_Milliseconds, otherwise we may not have a true randomization
-  // only srand I could catch before here is tr_noise.c l:26 srand(1001)
-  // https://zerowing.idsoftware.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=382
-  // NOTE: the Com_Milliseconds xoring only affects the lower 16-bit word,
-  //   but I decided it was enough randomization
-	Com_sprintf( cls.updateChallenge, sizeof( cls.updateChallenge ), "%i", ((rand() << 16) ^ rand()) ^ Com_Milliseconds());
+
+	Com_sprintf( cls.updateChallenge, sizeof( cls.updateChallenge ), "%i", (random() << 16) ^ random());
 
 	Info_SetValueForKey( info, "challenge", cls.updateChallenge );
 	Info_SetValueForKey( info, "renderer", cls.glconfig.renderer_string );