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From: edward@ukecc.UUCP (Edward C. Bennett)
Newsgroups: net.unix
Subject: Re: Is there a UNIX SVR2 random/srandom equivalent?
Message-ID: <157@ukecc.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 14-Jul-85 16:21:04 EDT
Article-I.D.: ukecc.157
Posted: Sun Jul 14 16:21:04 1985
Date-Received: Sat, 20-Jul-85 08:18:35 EDT
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Organization: Univ. of Ky. Engineering Computing Center
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Summary: A clarification

In article <156@ukecc.UUCP>, edward@ukecc.UUCP (Edward C. Bennett) writes:
> In article <2399@sun.uucp>, guy@sun.uucp (Guy Harris) writes:
> > > > Does anyone know what I should use in place of random and srandom?
> > > 
> 	In particular, while BSD and sysV RNGs both return ints, you
> must pay attention to what an int is. On a local VAX 11/750 an int is 4
> bytes. On our 3B20S an int is 2 bytes.
> 	Usually this won't make any difference, but every now and then
> you'll probably find a program where it does.

	It seems that I spoke too soon. Ints on our 3B20S are indeed 4 bytes
long. rand() returns a 4 byte value BUT (this is the catch) the value is
masked to its lower 15 bits yeilding 0 <= rand() <= 32767.

-- 
Edward C. Bennett

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