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authorJohn Marshall <John.W.Marshall@glasgow.ac.uk>2020-06-30 14:16:03 -0400
committerCarlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>2020-06-30 14:20:17 -0400
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random: range is not portably RAND_MAX [BZ #7003]
On other platforms, RAND_MAX (which is the range of rand(3))
may differ from 2^31-1 (which is the range of random(3)).

Reviewed-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
-rw-r--r--stdlib/stdlib.h2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/stdlib/stdlib.h b/stdlib/stdlib.h
index f971df4247..3aa27a9d25 100644
--- a/stdlib/stdlib.h
+++ b/stdlib/stdlib.h
@@ -397,7 +397,7 @@ extern long int a64l (const char *__s)
    `initstate' and `setstate' functions are those from BSD Unices.
    The `rand' and `srand' functions are required by the ANSI standard.
    We provide both interfaces to the same random number generator.  */
-/* Return a random long integer between 0 and RAND_MAX inclusive.  */
+/* Return a random long integer between 0 and 2^31-1 inclusive.  */
 extern long int random (void) __THROW;
 
 /* Seed the random number generator with the given number.  */