rand() man-page ambiguous or bug in glibc?

[Folkert van Heusden]

Hi,

The man-page says:
	The rand() function returns a pseudo-random integer between 0
	and RAND_MAX.
"Between" says me that neither 0 or RAND_MAX should be returned but a
simple test-program tells me otherwise.

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
int main(int argc, char *argv[]){for(;;){long long int dummy=rand(); if
(dummy == 0 || dummy == RAND_MAX)printf("value is %d\n", dummy);} return
0;}

So what is it?


Folkert van Heusden

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