initstate

Syntax

#include <stdlib.h>

char *initstate(unsigned seed, char *arg_state, int n);

Description

Initializes the random number generator (see section random) with pointer arg_state to array of n bytes, then calls srandom with seed.

Return Value

Pointer to old state information.

Portability

not ANSI, not POSIX

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