[c.math.rand]

[Note 1:

The header <cstdlib> declares the functions described in this subclause.

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int rand();
void srand(unsigned int seed);

Effects: The rand and srand functions have the semantics specified in the C standard library.

Remarks: The implementation may specify that particular library functions may call rand.

It is implementation-defined whether the rand function may introduce data races ([res.on.data.races]).

[Note 2:

The other random number generation facilities in this document ([rand]) are often preferable to rand, because rand's underlying algorithm is unspecified.

Use of rand therefore continues to be non-portable, with unpredictable and oft-questionable quality and performance.

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