# better solution would be to port mt's multi-value seed procedure
#define PHP_MT_RAND_MAX ((long) (0x7FFFFFFF)) /* (1<<31) - 1 */
#ifdef PHP_WIN32
-#define GENERATE_SEED() ((long) (time(0) * GetCurrentProcessId() * 1000000 * php_combined_lcg(TSRMLS_C)))
+#define GENERATE_SEED() (((long) (time(0) * GetCurrentProcessId())) ^ ((long) (1000000.0 * php_combined_lcg(TSRMLS_C))))
#else
-#define GENERATE_SEED() ((long) (time(0) * getpid() * 1000000 * php_combined_lcg(TSRMLS_C)))
+#define GENERATE_SEED() (((long) (time(0) * getpid())) ^ ((long) (1000000.0 * php_combined_lcg(TSRMLS_C)))))
#endif
PHPAPI void php_srand(long seed TSRMLS_DC);