From: Alistair Phillips Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Help: Using the clock to seed srand() Date: Tue, 22 Apr 1997 17:50:11 +1000 Organization: Australian National University Message-ID: <335C6DB3.39D@student.anu.edu.au> Reply-To: a DOT phillips AT student DOT anu DOT edu DOT au NNTP-Posting-Host: 150.203.21.88 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 17 To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Precedence: bulk Hi there, I'm having some trouble using the PC clock to seed srand() I have declared clock as unsigned int clock = (unsigned int *)0x0000046CL; then I call it srand(*clock); it compiles and links OK but when I run it I get a huge error message Can anyone please help me Alistair Phillips a DOT phillips AT student DOT anu DOT edu DOT au