Using Garbage Values To Generate Pseudorandom Numbers
Screenshot of a dark code editor showing a C function: a comment reads "//returns a double in the inclusive range 0.0 - 1.0", and get_random_double declares an uninitialized unsigned garbage variable, then returns it divided by UINT_MAX, using a garbage value as a random number.
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- when programmers mock absurd code
- discussing a broken random number implementation
- code review spotting an uninitialized variable
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