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On Thu, 2 Apr 1998, Brian Kirkland/CADC Designer wrote:
> Thanks to all who responded to this message. I used gdb
> and found the problem.
>
> It turns out that the guy who wrote the code had a line
> like this:
>
> j = (nClusters*rand())/(RAND_MAX+1)
>
> where "j" is an integer. He expected j to be set to a number
> between 0 and nClusters. However, he hard coded RAND_MAX to
> 32767 which is what it is in Solaris but NOT in Linux. As a result
> j was being set to a number larger than nClusters and when j
> was then used as an array index...**BOOM**, ...Seg. Fault.
>
>
> So, I simply deleted the #define where he set RAND_MAX and instead
> included:
>
> #include <stdlib.h>
>
> since RAND_MAX is defined in there so I would have the correct
> one by default no matter what architecture I was on.
>
> Thanks again for all the help.
>
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