Re: why does RAND_add() take "randomness" as a "double"?

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To: Richard Levitte <levitte@xxxxxxxxxxx>, "openssl-users@xxxxxxxxxxx" <openssl-users@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: why does RAND_add() take "randomness" as a "double"?
From: "Salz, Rich via openssl-users" <openssl-users@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 22 May 2019 02:07:28 +0000
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    >Then just set it to 1.0 and be done with it.
    
>    That hardly helps on systems that don't have floating point at all. 

No it doesn't.  Such systems aren't supported by OpenSSL.  There are many places were floating point is used/supported.
Removing the second arg to RAND_add is the least of the problems (look at various asm files)

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