TIP: Click on subject to list as thread! ANSI
echo: os2prog
to: Jonathan de Boyne Pollard
from: Mike Bilow
date: 1996-05-22 21:39:44
subject: Random Seed

Jonathan de Boyne Pollard wrote in a message to Mike Bilow:

 JdBP>       srand(time(0)) works on all C and C++ compilers for OS/2, 
 JdBP> where time_t is an integral type.  Your code is superfluous. 

However, as I noted, failing to use an explicit cast will at least generate
a warning from any respectable compiler.

 JdBP>       Where time_t isn't an integral type, your code is
 JdBP> wrong anyway. 

I had not considered that, although you are technically right.  I suppose
another cast would fix it.  :-)
 
-- Mike


--- 
* Origin: N1BEE BBS +1 401 944 8498 V.34/V.FC/V.32bis/HST16.8 (1:323/107)
SEEN-BY: 50/99 270/101 620/243 711/401 409 410 413 430 808 809 934 955
SEEN-BY: 712/407 515 517 628 713/888 800/1
@PATH: 323/107 396/1 270/101 712/515 711/808 934

SOURCE: echomail via fidonet.ozzmosis.com

Email questions or comments to sysop@ipingthereforeiam.com
All parts of this website painstakingly hand-crafted in the U.S.A.!
IPTIA BBS/MUD/Terminal/Game Server List, © 2025 IPTIA Consulting™.