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[PING][PATCH][BZ #7003] Fix description of random according to POSIX
- From: OndÅej BÃlka <neleai at seznam dot cz>
- To: libc-alpha at sourceware dot org
- Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2013 17:43:24 +0200
- Subject: [PING][PATCH][BZ #7003] Fix description of random according to POSIX
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ping,
On Sat, Oct 12, 2013 at 08:55:21PM +0200, OndÅej BÃlka wrote:
> Hi, this is another sitting patch. Now it deals that POSIX defines
> maximal random value as 2147483647. In bug entry also random_r was
> mentioned but so far I can not find page to confirm this.
>
> Comments or should we ask austin to clarify this?
>
>
> 2008-11-04 Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>
>
> [BZ #7003]
> * manual/math.texi (BSD Random): Specify range upper bound as in POSIX.
>
> --- a/manual/math.texi 2008-09-27 11:04:24.000000000 +0200
> +++ b/manual/math.texi 2008-11-04 12:17:36.000000000 +0100
> @@ -1364,7 +1364,7 @@
> @comment BSD
> @deftypefun {long int} random (void)
> This function returns the next pseudo-random number in the sequence.
> -The value returned ranges from @code{0} to @code{RAND_MAX}.
> +The value returned ranges from @code{0} to @code{2147483647}.
>
> @strong{NB:} Temporarily this function was defined to return a
> @code{int32_t} value to indicate that the return value always contains