Andre Majorel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On 2001-12-15 07:37 +0100, Hrvoje Niksic wrote:
>
>> Is there a good fallback value of RAND_MAX for systems that don't
>> bother to define it?
>
> The standard (SUS2) says :
>
> The value of the {RAND_MAX} macro will be at least 32767.
c9x says the same, but there is a subtle difference between statement
and the information I actually need. A SUS-conformant system will not
present a problem because it will define RAND_MAX anyway. The
information I need is what RAND_MAX should fall back to on the
"traditional" Unix systems that have rand(), but don't bother to
define RAND_MAX.
Online SunOS manuals are not very helpful -- the one at
<http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=rand&sektion=3&manpath=SunOS+4.1.3>
can't even seem to decide whether RAND_MAX is 2^31-1 or 2^15-1, and
there is no mention of RAND_MAX or of an include file that might
define it.
