Now, I'm sure no one on this list would trust MSVC6 rand() for anything
important, but this post from sci crypt (which I have not cofirmed)
may be of interest:
Peter Trei
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Newsgroups: sci.crypt, sci.crypt.random-numbers
Subject: Warning: MSVC6 rand function
Message-ID: <fu9G8.288206$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Organization: Bellsouth.Net
Date: Mon, 20 May 2002 12:31:09 -0400
In case anyone's interested, the rand() function that ships in the C runtime
library with Microsoft Visual Studio 6.0 is a *15-bit* LC-PRNG. Not only
that, but the most significant bit, which is also the most random bit in an
LC-PRNG, is discarded by masking.
Code snippet follows:
int __cdecl rand (void)
{
return(((holdrand = holdrand * 214013L + 2531011L) >> 16) & 0x7fff);
}
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