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From: pjh@mccc.UUCP (Peter J. Holsberg)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Strange C Program
Message-ID: <238@mccc.UUCP>
Date: 24 Feb 88 23:53:57 GMT
Organization: The College on the Other Side of US Route 1
Lines: 40
Keywords: 3B2/400, FPCC, SysV r3.0


The following program compiles with no problems.  When run by a user, it
generates "EMT trap - core dumped" message, but when run by ROOT, it
works like a charm!  Help!!

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#include <stdio.h>
#define MOD 65536
#define MULT 25173
#define ADD 13849

/* This program, named  CREATE ,creates pseudo random numbers and sends *  
 * them to a file named RANDOM.                                         */

main()
{
   int n,seed,fseed, i=1;
   FILE *fopen(), *of;

     of = fopen("random", "w");
     printf("\nHow many random numbers would you like to create?\n");
     scanf("%d", &n);
     printf("\nWith what number would you like to start the ");
     printf("pseudo number generator?\n");
     scanf("%d",&seed);

     while(i++ <= n)
     {
       seed = seed * MULT + ADD % MOD;
       fseed = seed % 100000;
       printf("%11d",fseed);
       fprintf(of, "%11d",fseed);
     }

}     

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