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From: jackk@shasta.Stanford.EDU (jackk)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: drand48()
Keywords: BUG, work as designed
Message-ID: <190@shasta.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 9 May 91 01:26:04 GMT
References: <1991May08.214654.26143@lynx.CS.ORST.EDU> <1991May08.234014.6370@lynx.CS.ORST.EDU>
Organization: Stanford University Computer Systems Laboratory
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>|> 
>|> What is the problem on RS/6000? Is it a BUG in drand48() or is it 'work
>|> as designed'??? :-( :-(
>|> 
>|> ---
>|>   Guangliang He                |  -----Go Blazers!-----
>
>As Marc (jackk@shasta.Stanford.EDU) pointed in a Email message,declearing
           ^^^^^^ not his address ---I was wrong about the
        initialization... he was right about the declaration
 
>double drand48() fix the problem on AIX. Sorry for the confusion, folks.
>
>But I'm still wondering why the program worked on SUN without declearing
>double drand48(), What is the difference between two compilers?
>
Actually, it fails on my SUN/4 without the declaration as well,
so perhaps its a feature of a specific version of a Sun compiler.