Date: Thu, 21 Nov 1996 13:12:08 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: "John M. Aldrich" <fighteer AT cs DOT com>
Cc: Mad <mad AT grupo DOT bfe DOT pt>, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Problems with djgpp 2.01
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On Wed, 20 Nov 1996, John M. Aldrich wrote:

> You must seed the random number generator with a call to srand() before
> you use any random numbers in your program.  The output of time(0) is
> usually a good seed to use.

This is only necessary if you want a *different* random series each 
time.  Otherwise, no call to `srand' is required.

> Since this is going to the newsgroup, I have a comment for Eli/DJ:  It
> appears that, for some reason, srand() got left out of the libc.inf
> documentation!  Was this something deliberate, or just a mistake?

Omission.  I don't think somebody would deliberately omit docs of an ANSI 
function.