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From: ralph@rtech.rtech.com (Ralph Harnden)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.bugs
Subject: Re: v04i110: An amazingly small C-program
Message-ID: <2474@rtech.rtech.com>
Date: 6 Oct 88 05:31:36 GMT
References: <7656@boring.cwi.nl> <2456@mhres.mh.nl>
Reply-To: ralph@rtech.UUCP (Ralph Harnden)
Organization: Relational Technology Inc, Alameda CA
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In article <2456@mhres.mh.nl> jv@mhres.mh.nl (Johan Vromans) writes:
>From article <7656@boring.cwi.nl>, by tromp@cwi.nl.UUCP (John Tromp):
>> Posting-number: Volume 4, Issue 110
>> Submitted-by: "John Tromp" <tromp@cwi.nl.UUCP>
>> Archive-name: mazemaze
>...
>Compile and run on a System V.3 system (NatSem 32332 based):
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Similar results on my 3B1.  Problem is rand(3C) returns int between -2**15+1
and 2**15-1, but the code expects int between 0 and 2**31-1.  Change rand()
to lrand48().  Or change "6<<27<rand()" to "6<<11<abs(rand())".  May work 4U.
-- 
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