>> none of the man pages I've looked at so far mention it). But all the
>> machines say that the output of random() is 31 bits, so INT_MAX should
>> work.
> SuSv2 says explicitly 2^31-1 so you should use that, otherwise you'll
> be non-portable to platforms with 64-bit ints, for example.
Maybe. You don't think that a 64-bit-int platform would choose to
supply a random() function with a range of 2^63-1? The HPUX and SunOS
man pages clearly specify that random()'s result is "long", so I think
a case could also be made for LONG_MAX.
I suspect we have a good chance at getting burned no matter what we use
:-(. But RAND_MAX is definitely the wrong thing.
Is it possible to test (during configure phase) and then go from there... or does it need to be the same for all platforms?
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