See #770
To help automatically translate code, see the
zig-fmt-pointer-reform-2 branch.
This will convert all & into *. Due to the syntax
ambiguity (which is why we are making this change),
even address-of & will turn into *, so you'll have
to manually fix thes instances. You will be guaranteed
to get compile errors for them - expected 'type', found 'foo'
We now use a generic Rand structure which abstracts the core functions
from the backing engine.
The old Mersenne Twister engine is removed and replaced instead with
three alternatives:
- Pcg32
- Xoroshiro128+
- Isaac64
These should provide sufficient coverage for most purposes, including a
CSPRNG using Isaac64. Consumers of the library that do not care about
the actual engine implementation should use DefaultPrng and DefaultCsprng.
Andrew Kelley
Marc Tiehuis