Date: Thu, 22 Jan 1998 18:33:55 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Nate Eldredge <eldredge AT ap DOT net>
cc: Van Mo Dang <van DOT mo DOT dang AT utc DOT fr>, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: random numbers?
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On Wed, 21 Jan 1998, Nate Eldredge wrote:

> >All C library functions I have used until now can be declared
> >using a provided header file.  I find it reassuring, 
> >because errors in copying the prototypes locally
> >can be avoided by using such header files.  
> It does seem strange.
> 
> On other systems:
> 
> Linux (i386, libc 5) declares `random' and `srandom' in <stdlib.h>, but
> inside "#ifdef __USE_BSD".
> 
> 4.4 BSD (FreeBSD 2.0.5, i386) has them in <stdlib.h> also, but inside
> 
> #if !defined(_ANSI_SOURCE) && !defined(_POSIX_SOURCE)

In my experience, void functions and functions which return an int and
are not ANSI/POSIX, usually have *no* prototypes on Unix systems.