From: "John M. Aldrich" <fighteer AT cs DOT com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Problems with djgpp 2.01
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 1996 18:39:20 -0800
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To: Mad <mad AT grupo DOT bfe DOT pt>
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Mad wrote:
> 
> Hello all,
> 
>         i just downloaded djgpp version 2.01 and i'm having problem with the
> rand() function which always assigns 0 (zero) to my variable. For instance:

You must seed the random number generator with a call to srand() before
you use any random numbers in your program.  The output of time(0) is
usually a good seed to use.

For a slightly better (less predictable) random number generator, use
random()/srandom().

Since this is going to the newsgroup, I have a comment for Eli/DJ:  It
appears that, for some reason, srand() got left out of the libc.inf
documentation!  Was this something deliberate, or just a mistake?

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