Dear Monks,

I got a strange tester failure report for Syntax::Construct. It seems there's a machine with Perl 5.20.2 whose $Config{randfunc} returns drand48 , but my test expects Perl_drand48 . See the relevant perl5200delta:

> Perl now uses its own internal drand48() implementation on all platforms.

Corion pointed me to a search for randfunc where the only possibly relevant line is the one from uconfig64.sh: 

776:randfunc='drand48'

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I don't understand what the file is used for, so this might be totally unrelated.

So, my questions are:

  1. Is it OK to have Perl 5.20+ with $Config{randfunc} returning drand48 without the Perl_ prefix? If so, I can check just /drand48/ or use index in the test.
  2. Is there some other method besides using %Config to check that Perl uses its own drand48 function? 

($q=q:Sq=~/;[c](.)(.)/;chr(-||-|5+lengthSq)`"S|oS2"`map{chr |+ord
}map{substrSq`S_+|`|}3E|-|`7**2-3:)=~y+S|`+$1,++print+eval$q,q,a,

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In reply to randfunc in Config by choroba

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