A Usenet article generator [4.3 FIX]
trainor at ucla-cs.UUCP
trainor at ucla-cs.UUCP
Thu Feb 19 18:36:43 AEST 1987
>Well, I compiled and run it, but at the end of producing its amusing
>output, it constantly gives "Segmentation fault - core dumped". This
>is on a VAX running 4.3BSD.
Same here. It's just a sloppy pointer thing... The DIFFs follow.
Also, the roll(n) function was returning large integers, outside the
range. Please note that the low-order bits of most rand() functions
are junk!!!! If you have random(), use it.
Douglas
141c141
< srand ((unsigned) atoi (optarg));
---
> srand (atoi (optarg));
377c377
< return (int) (n * (double) rand() / 32768.);
---
> return ((((rand()>>8)&0x7fff)*n)/0x7fff);
403c403
< if (tp == NULL)
---
> if (p->scnod == (struct node *) NULL || tp == (char *) NULL)
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