Date: Thu, 6 Nov 1997 12:38:57 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: John Payne <jgp100 AT york DOT ac DOT uk>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: rand() or random()
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On Thu, 6 Nov 1997, John Payne wrote:

> Just out of interest, can anybody find to hand the algorithm that GCC uses
> for random(). I'm doing some work on Genetic Algorithms where a fairly
> decent aproximation of randomness is quite important and it would be nice
> to know that's GCC's random() is decent.

You must be kidding.  DJGPP comes with full sources to its C library.
Just download v2/djlsr201.zip, and look into the sources of `random'
(src/libc/compat/stdlib/random.c).

Btw, you should distinguish between the compiler and the library.
GCC knows nothing about the DJGPP C library.  To GCC, `random' is just
another function, it doesn't even know whether it is in the library or
written by you as part of your program.