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From: bennett AT erich DOT triumf DOT ca (P.Bennett)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Use of random
Date: 5 May 1996 22:17 PST
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In article <4mikhp$pa5 AT frodo DOT smartlink DOT net>, nmarrone AT smartlink DOT net (Nicholas Marrone) writes...
>Hullo,
>	To test out my radix_bit_sort function, I've been trying to generate a
>list of random numbers to sort, and then sort them. The list is rather
>long, 4000, and I'd like it to be ints, but I can' seem to get it! The
>program compiles and runs without error, but it gives me #s far larger
>than integers when I print out some results. I'm using DJGPP v2.
>Here's some of the code...
> 

Since you were storing the numbers in ints, and printing them as ints, they
_can't_ be bigger than ints!

Perhaps you have previously used a Borland or Microsoft compiler, where ints
are 16 bits, and RAND_MAX is 32767.  I expect that DJGPP has 32 bit ints, so
RAND_MAX will be 2,147,483,647. (or so)

If you want to restrict the numbers to 16 bits, you will have to use short
ints, rather than plain ints.

See the comp.lang.c FAQ (available from ftp://rtfm.mit.edu) for some discussion
on restricting the range of random numbers.


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