Re: simple PRNG?

Richard Heathfield wrote:
jacob navia said:

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The lcc-win compiler system uses this:

Let us not forget that the lcc-win compiler system does not conform to ISO/IEC 9899:1999, which you have said this very morning is "standard C". So you're advocating a non-conforming compiler system.

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This needs 32 bit maths as you see. I think it could be ported to 16
bits by making the result mod 2^16 -1

Yes, it can. Unfortunately, this gives the result 32767 on every call.

I said "ported". Not just copied



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