From: mert0407 AT sable DOT ox DOT ac DOT uk (George Foot)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: random numbers error in DJGPP
Date: Mon, 03 Feb 1997 00:45:04 GMT
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On Sun, 02 Feb 1997 19:43:40 GMT, cpw10 AT columbia DOT edu (Chester Wong)
wrote:

>On Sun, 02 Feb 1997 18:29:52 GMT, aho450s AT nic DOT smsu DOT edu (Tony O'Bryan)
>wrote:
>
>>rand() and RND do not work the same way.  rand() returns a number from 0 to
>>RAND_MAX according to the info file.
>
>For some reason, I was never able to find RAND_MAX documented anywhere.
>Is RAND_MAX the same as INT_MAX, or should I not make this assumption?

I wouldn't; I would just use random(), which returns a number between
0 and MAXINT, and use srandom(int) to seed the generator beforehand.

George Foot