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| author | John Marshall <John.W.Marshall@glasgow.ac.uk> | 2020-06-30 14:16:03 -0400 |
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| committer | Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com> | 2020-06-30 14:20:17 -0400 |
| commit | 354b98cdfd78fc8ca0f6ed7b0e3aa8c311f1deba (patch) | |
| tree | e1f168e14981e59de0b59f6144db58d91079001d /stdlib/stdlib.h | |
| parent | 3ee1e0ec5cd0441954be9181dc437358846b39c6 (diff) | |
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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>
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| -rw-r--r-- | stdlib/stdlib.h | 2 |
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. */ |