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Does anyone know why the reentrancy layer needed malloc in the first place? I didn't understand that part.

• saagarjha 5y ago
  It's used to store internal random state.
  • ufo 5y ago
    But why is the internal RNG state dynamically allocated? I would have expected it to be a static variable allocated only once.
    • veltas 5y ago
      So that you can call it in different threads or in a signal without clobbering another invocation's state.