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| From | Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.c |
| Subject | Re: portable rand/srand across linux,windows,etc |
| Date | 2011-11-15 08:01 -0500 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <j9tnri$md$1@dont-email.me> (permalink) |
| References | <j9tngi$fm9$1@reader1.panix.com> |
On 11/15/2011 7:55 AM, JohnF wrote:
> Sorry if the wrong ng (please suggest another).
> I'm looking for robustly portable stdlib entry points
> for rand()/srand() (e.g., or random()/srandom()),
> particularly across linux gcc and windows
> mingw and djgpp (and ms compilers).
> That is, I want to distribute one source, without
> a lot of pesky #ifdef's, to compile on all platforms.
> Would also be nice if portable across everything
> else from free/netbsd to vms/dec C, too, but linux
> and windows are the biggies. Google shows various
> occasional complaints about rand stuff not compiling and/or
> not working on windows. I don't need anything particularly
> good -- just naked eye random, so to speak. And if it's
> easier to just cut-and-paste source from Numerical Recipes,
> I'm okay with that, too.
Every (hosted) C implementation supplies rand() and srand(),
both declared in <stdlib.h>. The quality of the generated
numbers may vary from one implementation to the next, but should
suffice for "naked eye random."
--
Eric Sosman
esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid
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portable rand/srand across linux,windows,etc JohnF <john@please.see.sig.for.email.com> - 2011-11-15 12:55 +0000
Re: portable rand/srand across linux,windows,etc Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2011-11-15 08:01 -0500
Re: portable rand/srand across linux,windows,etc Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2011-11-15 13:14 +0000
Re: portable rand/srand across linux,windows,etc JohnF <john@please.see.sig.for.email.com> - 2011-11-15 13:46 +0000
Re: portable rand/srand across linux,windows,etc Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2011-11-15 14:09 -0800
Re: portable rand/srand across linux,windows,etc JohnF <john@please.see.sig.for.email.com> - 2011-11-16 03:45 +0000
Re: portable rand/srand across linux,windows,etc Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2011-11-15 20:11 -0800
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