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Re: 64-bit srandom()?



In message <email@hidden>, Nick Zitzmann
 writes:
>I searched around and didn't see anything relevant...
>
>In our 32-bit projects, we're calling:
>
>srandom(time(NULL));
>
>What's the best way of doing something like the above in a 64-bit  
>program? srandom() takes a 32-bit integer when compiling for both 32- 
>bit and 64-bit, but time() returns a 64-bit integer when compiling for  
>64-bit. I guess I have until 2038 to worry about this, but I'd rather  
>deal with it now...

Why would you change it?  The integer will get politely converted down
(it's an unsigned long, so overflow's safely handled) and it'll do what
you want.

-s
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