From: "John M. Aldrich" <fighteer AT cs DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Seed for srandom()
Date: Thu, 26 Dec 1996 18:30:17 -0800
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Aleksi Kallio wrote:
> 
> What would be good seed  function for srandom()?
> Something clock based of course, but which one?
> I didn't find any time function that returns int value. And srandom
> requires int value.
> Any good ideas?

Cast the return value of time() to an int, like so:

#include <stdlib.h>
#include <time.h>

int main( void )
{
    srandom( (int) time( NULL ) );

    ...
}
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