Date: Wed, 12 Nov 1997 14:06:50 +0200 (IST) From: Eli Zaretskii To: Nate Eldredge cc: Ove Kaaven , djgpp AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: rand() or random() In-Reply-To: <199711112016.MAA18267@adit.ap.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Precedence: bulk On Tue, 11 Nov 1997, Nate Eldredge wrote: > Okay, how about this: > > int _random(void) > { /* code from BSD random() */ } > > int random(void) { return _random(); } I'm not lawyer enough to tell whether the BSD copyright on the original `random' allows to change its name to `_random'.