random() error in Turbo C++

[Evan Marshall Manning]

henry at zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:

>The original Unix rand() did a 32-bit calculation internally and returned
>the HIGH-order 16 bits.  Unfortunately, certain idiots porting the system
>to 32-bit machines wanted a 32-bit rand() and didn't bother understanding
>why it was done the way it was...

Modern coding practice might suggest the use of comments in the source
code to prevent such accidents :-(

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