From: ao950 AT FreeNet DOT Carleton DOT CA (Paul Derbyshire)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: drand48, srand48??
Date: 28 Aug 1997 09:07:48 GMT
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Shane Crowe (shanec AT nortel DOT com) writes:
> Our GNU C compiler setup for Unix has support for drand48 and
> srand48 functions. The 48 is for 48-bit math. Does this exist
> for djgpp? If so, where? This would make porting stuff over to
> DOS easier. 

I don't think so. But djgpp has long long, a 64 bit type. Try this:

long long foo;
srand(time(NULL));
foo=(rand()<<16)+rand();

Will that do the job?

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