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random: Remove internal aliases for the global Mt19937 functionality (#14314)
* random: Remove `php_rand()`
This effectively is just a slim wrapper around `(zend_long)php_mt_rand()`. It
is not compatible between 32-bit and 64-bit builds of PHP, due to the use of
`zend_long`, which may result in negative integersbeing returned on 32-bit
platforms, whereas 64-bit platforms will be compatible with `php_mt_rand()`. An
example would be the `0` seed, which emits 2357136044 on 64-bit platforms and
-1937831252 on 32-bit platforms.
Users of `php_rand()` should ideally migrate to one of the more modern engines,
with extension-specific state. If drop-in compatibility is desired, they can
just cast the result of `php_mt_rand()`. But providing it out of the box does
not provide a value-add and is potentially dangerous.
* random: Remove `php_srand()`
With `php_rand()` gone, preserving its companion `php_srand()` is just
confusing. The same recommendations apply: Migrate to a modern engine if
possible and just call `php_mt_srand()` with an appropriately casted input.
* random: Remove `PHP_RAND_MAX` and `RAND_MAX`
These are the companions to `php_rand()`, which was removed in a previous
commit.
Generally speaking the maximum returnable value is not particularly useful
anyways. Attempting it to create a random float by dividing the returned
integer by the maximum value would result in a bias if the maximum value would
be larger than 2**53 and even for that case, the various `range()` helpers
allow to easily retrieve a uniformly distributed integer from a suitable range.
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