RE: Changing qsysinc/h(stdlib)

[Joel Fritz <JFritz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

If it doesn't involve a whole bunch of work, you might consider the ILE
random number api--CEERN0, I think, which returns a float between 1 and 0.
All the regular float precision stuff applies, but for numbers under a
million, I think it would work pretty well.



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Westdorp, Tom [mailto:Tom.Westdorp@StationCasinos.com]
> Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2001 12:22 PM
> To: midrange-l@midrange.com
> Subject: Changing qsysinc/h(stdlib)
>
>
> If I understand the 'rand' C function correctly, it returns a
> pseudo-random
> number limited on the high end by the value set in
> qsysinc/h(stdlib) as
> follows " #define RAND_MAX           32767".
>
> I have a requirement for a (much) higher max number.  In
> trying to update I
> find the file is protected from update/add/delete by attribute.
>
> 1.  Is it possible to change it to "  #define RAND_MAX
>   524272"
> 2.  If so, how?
>
> I'm calling it as an extproc from RPGIV on r510 and will
> limit the LoRange -
> HiRange as previously discussed in the archives at midrange.com.
>
> TIA
>
> Tom Westdorp
> Station Casinos