Thread overview
Why doesn't drand48() and srand48() work.
Oct 06, 2006
%u
Oct 06, 2006
Walter Bright
Oct 07, 2006
Mill-Creeks
Oct 07, 2006
Walter Bright
October 06, 2006
Excuse me, I am no experienced C programmer, but I really need help.
I've installed DMC and if I write a program normmean.c containing this lines;

      unsigned short myseed;
      myseed=750908;
      srand48(myseed);

...and also:

      double chi;
      chi=drand48();

.. I get an error when compiling. Running "dmc normmean" yields

"normmean.obj(normmean) Error 42: Symbol Undefined _srand48" and equally for
"_drand". What is wrong? The same program (attached) worked well when compiled
with gcc at my school.



October 06, 2006
%u wrote:
> "normmean.obj(normmean) Error 42: Symbol Undefined _srand48" and equally for
> "_drand". What is wrong? The same program (attached) worked well when compiled
> with gcc at my school.

srand48 and drand are not standard C functions.
October 07, 2006
Thank you very much for your reply, Walter Bright!

How may I access drand48() and srand48() then? I thought they would come with
"#include <stdlib.h>".
October 07, 2006
Mill-Creeks wrote:
> Thank you very much for your reply, Walter Bright!
> 
> How may I access drand48() and srand48() then? I thought they would come with
> "#include <stdlib.h>".

You could switch to using the C standard random number generator rand() and srand().