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From: watzka AT stat DOT uni-muenchen DOT de (Kurt Watzka)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Use of random
Date: 6 May 1996 18:20:37 GMT
Organization: Institut fuer Statistik der LMU Muenchen (Germany)
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bennett AT erich DOT triumf DOT ca (P.Bennett) writes:

>Perhaps you have previously used a Borland or Microsoft compiler, where ints
>are 16 bits, and RAND_MAX is 32767.  I expect that DJGPP has 32 bit ints, so
>RAND_MAX will be 2,147,483,647. (or so)

This connection is common, but not necessary. RAND_MAX cannot be greater
than INT_MAX for obvious reasons, but there is no need for RAND_MAX being
close to INT_MAX.

>If you want to restrict the numbers to 16 bits, you will have to use short
>ints, rather than plain ints.

And, afaik, there is no guarantee that short int is a 16 bit integer
type, it is just a common implementation.


Kurt

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