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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: A Universal Random Number Generator.
Message-ID: <9704@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 25 Feb 89 02:10:22 GMT
References: <7354@pyr.gatech.EDU> <5873@bsu-cs.UUCP>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <5873@bsu-cs.UUCP> dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi) writes:
-In article <7354@pyr.gatech.EDU> naras@stat.fsu.edu (B. Narasimhan) presents
-a universal random number generator that includes the definitions:
->#define CONST_2 362436
->#define CONST_3 7654321
->#define CONST_4 16777213
-Better make these long, with an L suffix.  Else some compilers I've
-encountered will assume they are 16-bit ints, and truncate them
-accordingly.

Since that is in direct contradiction to K&R1's specs for integer
constants, one could make a strong case that such a compiler is not
worth using.  Could you tell us whose compilers are thus broken,
so we could steer clear of them?