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From: andre@targon.UUCP (Andre van Dalen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386,comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: time(0L) - history of a misconception (was Re: SCO password generator)
Message-ID: <1796@targon.UUCP>
Date: 1 Jun 91 21:37:10 GMT
References: <588@sherpa.UUCP> <1141@mwtech.UUCP> <381@tmcsys.UUCP>
Organization: Siemens Nixdorf Informationsystems BV.,SWZ, Vianen, the Netherlands.
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In article <381@tmcsys.UUCP> lh@aega84.UUCP (L. Hirschbiegel) writes:
  >In article <1141@mwtech.UUCP> martin@mwtech.UUCP (Martin Weitzel) writes:
  >>In article <588@sherpa.UUCP> rac@sherpa.UUCP (Roger Cornelius) writes:
  >>[...]
  >>>     long seed = time(0L);
  >>                       ^^--------- wrong
  >>                 time((long *)0);
  >>                      ^^^^^^^^^--- right
[ removed assembler listing (gives us a clue :-) ]

  >>Repeat after me: POINTER to long.
  >
  >Repeat after me: IT DOESN'T MATTER :-)

Never worked under MSDOeSn't in different memory models or on 64 bit
machines have you?

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