• Monk <Monk_member pathlink.com> Jun 04 2003
• Heinz Saathoff <hsaat bre.ipnet.de> Jun 05 2003
• "Greg Peet" <admin gregpeet.com> Jun 06 2003
• Heinz Saathoff <hsaat bre.ipnet.de> Jun 06 2003

rand() and RAND_MAX don't seem to be available, or are they? What is the
equivalent of cstdlib.h?

Monk schrieb...
 rand() and RAND_MAX don't seem to be available, or are they? What is the
 equivalent of cstdlib.h?


You include either <stdlib.h>  or  <cstdlib>, but not <cstdlib.h> (hope 
this is true for DM).

- Heinz

Prepended header files with 'c' indicate the standardized ruling for using
the C runtime library (standard portions) with C++. Thus time becomes
<ctime> instead of <time.h>, <stdio.h> becomes <cstdio>, <stdlib.h> becomes
<cstdlib>, etc. Are you writing in C or C++? If it's C++, there should be no
.h (though you may sometimes, non-standard-ruled for some). Now if you are,
take into account which Standard Library you are using. I've had some
problems with namespaces with the SGI (which is why STLPort is available).

"Heinz Saathoff" <hsaat bre.ipnet.de> wrote in message
news:MPG.1949550a205d33d29896bd news.digitalmars.com...
 Monk schrieb...
 rand() and RAND_MAX don't seem to be available, or are they? What is the
 equivalent of cstdlib.h?


 You include either <stdlib.h>  or  <cstdlib>, but not <cstdlib.h> (hope
 this is true for DM).

 - Heinz

Greg Peet schrieb...
 Prepended header files with 'c' indicate the standardized ruling for using
 the C runtime library (standard portions) with C++. Thus time becomes
 <ctime> instead of <time.h>, <stdio.h> becomes <cstdio>, <stdlib.h> becomes
 <cstdlib>, etc. Are you writing in C or C++? If it's C++, there should be no
 .h (though you may sometimes, non-standard-ruled for some). Now if you are,
 take into account which Standard Library you are using. I've had some
 problems with namespaces with the SGI (which is why STLPort is available).


The difference between <cname> and <name.h> in C++ is that all 
identifiers (except macros) are in namespace std when <cname> is 
included and in global namespace if <name.h> is included.
For now I still use the 'original' c-headers (old men move slowly <g>).

- Heinz