Ian Abbott [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On 27 Nov 2001, at 15:16, Hrvoje Niksic wrote:
So, does anyone know about the portability of rand()?
It's in the ANSI/ISO C spec (ISO 9899). It's always been in UNIX
(or at least it's been in there since UNIX 7th Edition), and I
should think it's
Herold Heiko [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
In the current cvs sources HAVE_RANDOM is mentioned in Changelog, used
in a not exactly obvious way in main.c at line 577, but nowhere else.
Is this a work in progress or a leftover of previous code ?
Backup code for systems without 'random()' (hint
Herold Heiko [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
What about aother check, use random() if available, otherwise rand()
if available, otherwise your barebone generator ? On the other hand,
for what it is used currently probably there isn't the need for that
complication.
Exactly. If there is a
On 27 Nov 2001, at 15:16, Hrvoje Niksic wrote:
So, does anyone know about the portability of rand()?
It's in the ANSI/ISO C spec (ISO 9899). It's always been in UNIX
(or at least it's been in there since UNIX 7th Edition), and I
should think it's always been in the MS-DOS compilers, but I
VC++ has it
Generates a pseudorandom number.
Routine Required Header
rand stdlib.h
int rand( void );
Libraries
All versions of the C run-time libraries.
Return Values
rand returns a pseudorandom number, as described above. There is no
error return.
Remarks
The rand function returns a
In the current cvs sources HAVE_RANDOM is mentioned in Changelog, used
in a not exactly obvious way in main.c at line 577, but nowhere else.
Is this a work in progress or a leftover of previous code ?
Backup code for systems without 'random()' (hint hint VC++) is needed :)
Heiko
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