From:	Erik Max Francis <max AT alcyone DOT com>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: Random numbers...
Date:	Sat, 16 Aug 1997 21:07:17 -0700
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John M. Aldrich wrote:

>     srand( (int) time( NULL ) );  /* seeds rand() */

If you're going to use an explicit cast, might as well use the right one
(because otherwise this could conceivably generate a signed/unsigned
conversion warning).  srand's sole argument is of type unsigned int.  (Why
exactly this is the case is not clear to me.)

Minor ANSI C nitpick from the minor ANSI C advocate . . .

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