[PATCH][BZ #7003] Fix description of random according to POSIX

Ondřej Bílka neleai@seznam.cz
Sat Oct 12 18:55:00 GMT 2013


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



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