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-== Other functions ==
-
-Random number generation, memory allocation, logging.
-
-[[randomref]]
-=== Random bits ===
-
-The first time PBC is asked to generate a random number,
-the library will try to open the file `/dev/urandom` as a
-source of random bits. If this fails, PBC falls back to a deterministic
-random number generator (which is of course completely useless for
-cryptography).
-
-It is possible to change the file used for random bits. Also, explicitly
-selecting the deterministic random number generator will
-suppress the warning.
-
-On Windows, by default, PBC uses the Microsoft Crypto API to generate random
-bits.
-
-include::gen/pbcrandom.txt[]
-
-=== Custom allocation ===
-
-Like GMP, PBC can be instructed to use custom memory allocation functions.
-This must be done before any memory allocation is performed,
-usually at the beginning of a program before any other PBC functions have
-been called.
-
-Also like GMP, the PBC wrappers around +malloc+
-and +realloc+ will print a message on standard error
-and terminate program execution if the calls fail.
-Replacements for these functions should act similarly.
-
-However, unlike GMP, PBC does not pass the number of bytes previously allocated
-along with the pointer in calls to +realloc+ and
-+free+.
-
-include::gen/alloc.txt[]
-
-=== Logging ===
-
-include::gen/log.txt[]