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Path: es.rice.edu!joel
From: [e-mail] (Joel Castellanos)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Q: Visual C++ rand
Date: 4 Jan 1996 18:55:57 GMT
Organization: Rice University, Houston, Texas
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I am trying to use the rand function in Visual C++
The help file says it is:
   int rand( void );
Yet the following program gives me the compile error:
   error C2446: '=' : no conversion from 'int(__cdecl *)(void)' to 'int'

rand should be returning an int - so why the conversion error?

#include <stdio.h>
#include <math.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
void main () {
int n;
n= rand;
printf("n = %d\n", n);
}