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From: Fred Kulack <kulack AT us DOT ibm DOT com>
Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2004 13:22:09 -0600
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On 11/25/2004 at 10:25:28 AM, cygwin-owner wrote:
> I trying to link a small C/C++ program and I got linking error on 
time(),
> rand() and srand(). These should be part of libc right? So way are they
> missing? Has cygwin some special libc implementation or something???
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This works for me. What is your output when compiling?
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <time.h>

int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
   srand((unsigned int)time(NULL));

   for (int i=0; i<10; ++i) {
      printf("Random #%d: %d\n", i, (int)rand());
   }
   return 0;
}



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