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10.46.24 initstate ¶

POSIX specification:
https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9799919799/functions/initstate.html

Gnulib module: random

Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:

• This function is missing on some platforms: mingw, MSVC 14, Android 4.4.
• This function is not declared on some platforms: Cygwin 1.5.25.

Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:

• This function crashes if the state buffer is unaligned on some platforms: glibc 2.36/sparc.
• The first parameter is unsigned long instead of unsigned int on some platforms: MidnightBSD 2.0.
• The third parameter is long instead of size_t on some platforms: MidnightBSD 2.0.
• This function makes out-of-bounds writes on some platforms: Haiku.