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From: rodean@hpfcdc.HP.COM (Bruce Rodean)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: RAND_MAX in stdlib.h is wrong (HP-UX 7.0)
Message-ID: <5570518@hpfcdc.HP.COM>
Date: 16 Oct 90 15:47:04 GMT
References: <TT.90Oct14171739@euler.jyu.fi>
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Co., Ft. Collins, CO.
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In article <TT.90Oct14171739@euler.jyu.fi> tt@euler.jyu.fi (Tapani Tarvainen) writes:
> Just a quick note in case anybody should happen to use code like
> 
> $include <stdlib.h>
> ...
> 	(double)rand()/RAND_MAX
> 
> the definition of RAND_MAX in stdlib.h is wrong:
> 
> #  define RAND_MAX 32763
> 
> whereas it should be 32767.  (This is in HP-UX 7.0; earlier releases
> didn't have RAND_MAX defined at all, newer ones I don't know about.)

It appears that this was just a typographical mistake made the first
time it was created.  It has already been corrected for the next
revision of HP-UX to 32767 as you stated.  Thanks for pointing it out.

Bruce Rodean
Hewlett-Packard Co.
rodean@hpfcla.HP.COM

This does not represent the official position of Hewlett-Packard Co.