From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject: Re: Allegro and random numbers.
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2000 09:44:14 +0200
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On Mon, 14 Feb 2000, Damian Yerrick wrote:

> So I can include DJGPP's random() (with the ad clause removed) in my
> GPL'd game, and it will work on other 32-bit compilers?

Yes.

> What about collisions with other compilers' libc

Don't call the functions `random', `srandom', etc.  Rename them to
`my_random' or something, and you don't have to worry about name-space
collisions.  If only a specific module uses an RNG, you can simply
make them static, then even renaming isn't necessary.