[9714] in Athena Bugs
Re: IBM RS6000 7.3: Rand
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (lwvanels@Athena.MIT.EDU)
Thu Jul 30 08:39:00 1992
From: lwvanels@Athena.MIT.EDU
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 92 08:38:49 -0400
To: ellis@Athena.MIT.EDU
Cc: bugs@Athena.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: [9530]
Reply-To: lwvanels@MIT.EDU
IBM has decided to classify this as a documentation bug, instead of adding a
BSD compliant rand() to their BSD libraries. To get the desired range of
random numbers (from 0 to 2**31-1), you can use the random() routine, which
should also produce "better" random numbers.
-Lucien
