Function l_randomizePivot

depends/lua/src/ltablib.c:258–268

** Use 'time' and 'clock' as sources of "randomness". Because we don't ** know the types 'clock_t' and 'time_t', we cannot cast them to ** anything without risking overflows. A safe way to use their values ** is to copy them to an array of a known type and use the array values. */

** is to copy them to an array of a known type and use the array values.
*/
static unsigned int l_randomizePivot (void) {
  clock_t c = clock();
  time_t t = time(NULL);
  unsigned int buff[sof(c) + sof(t)];
  unsigned int i, rnd = 0;
  memcpy(buff, &c, sof(c) * sizeof(unsigned int));
  memcpy(buff + sof(c), &t, sof(t) * sizeof(unsigned int));
  for (i = 0; i < sof(buff); i++)
    rnd += buff[i];
  return rnd;
}

#endif					/* } */