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From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com>
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Subject: Re: How do I write directly to a memory address?
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"Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> writes:

> Wrong. You might have an implementation of Random backed by the hardware in
> which case Random would have no internal state whatsoever.

I don't think a truly random implementation of
Ada.Numerics. ... .Random would be correct,
because you're allowed to reset the state to a
previously-saved state, and replay they exact same sequence
of pseudo-random numbers.

It might be useful to have a truly-random function, but
it would have to be a different one.

- Bob