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akdev1l 3 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: C++ proposal: There are exactly 8 bits in a byte

> The function rand() is not reentrant or thread-safe, since it uses hidden state that is modified on each call.

It cannot be called safely from a multi-threaded application for one

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