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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Mystery (was: Improved Random by Doug Gwyn)
Message-ID: <7351@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: 26 Feb 88 13:38:48 GMT
References: <479@anuck.UUCP>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
Lines: 18
Keywords: random numbers

In article <479@anuck.UUCP> jrl@anuck.UUCP (j.r.lupien) writes:
>Doug Gwyn posted a nice random number generator based on
>one of the Knuth algorithms. His C code was terse to
>the extreme, so I have made it a bit more "real".
>-------begin file random.c---------

What in the world are you talking about?  The code you posted is
not remotely related to anything I ever wrote.

>  As posted by Doug, this would not work on many machines, 
>  and might well crash and burn
>  on others. The problem was in the pointers. ...

What pointers?  I posted a portable ANSI C implementation of a
linear congruential algorithm, involving NO use of pointers.

Please remove my name from your code -- I consider it atrocious
and do not want people associating my name with it!