[ENet-discuss] Platforms other then Windows and *nix?

[Doug Warren]

And actually from Patricks point of view that's even worse.  What if the
embeded device has no RTC then every random seed on startup would be the
same.  Perhaps enet_random_entropy() in each platform would be more clear.


On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 1:18 PM, Lee Salzman <lsalzman at gmail.com> wrote:

> Not quite, enet_time_get() is for returning a running time counter, and is
> not really intended for providing a time-differentiated random seed. If you
> start up enet in quick succession making connections, then the random seeds
> can more easily accidentally overlap. The idea here is to get actual time
> in seconds so that on successive startups of enet the chance of collisions
> is much smaller. And it's intended that time() is pretty standard, and
> originally that's all that was used... Except that Win32 in its usual
> rebelliousness, doesn't quite like this without linking against more extra
> libraries, so I opted for timeGetTime() there. Chill out. It's not the end
> of the world.
>
>
> On 08/08/2013 10:56 PM, Patrick Klos wrote:
>
>> On 8/8/2013 2:00 PM, Doug Warren wrote:
>>
>>> You'd have to define your terms a bit better.  It's straight C, if you
>>> have berkley sockets and anything even vaguely resembling POSIX there
>>> should be no need for extra support.  I use the same build scripts for
>>> iOS/Android/OSX/Linux.
>>>
>>
>> The platform in question uses lwIP <http://savannah.nongnu.org/**
>> projects/lwip/ <http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/lwip/>> (a
>> lightweight IP stack).  Not real close to POSIX, but the basic functions
>> are there.  It's not quite _extra_ support, but it's _different_ support.
>>  I have it essentially working.
>>
>>
>>  https://github.com/lsalzman/**enet/blob/master/host.c<https://github.com/lsalzman/enet/blob/master/host.c>shows a single check for a platform specific check regarding how to get a
>>> uint32 timestamp.
>>>
>>
>> Which is completely unnecessary when the platform abstraction layer
>> (win32.c and unix.c) provides the enet_time_get() function!?!  It doesn't
>> make sense why that function wouldn't be used?
>>
>> Patrick
>>
>>
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