(random): Revert the declaration.

2 files changed, 10 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/src/ChangeLog b/src/ChangeLog
index 0021ec4298b..51f2a856f6a 100644
--- a/src/ChangeLog
+++ b/src/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2001-01-10  Dave Love  <fx@gnu.org>
+
+        * sysdep.c (random): Revert the declaration.
+
 2001-01-09  Gerd Moellmann  <gerd@gnu.org>
 
         * lisp.h (STRING_BYTES) [GC_CHECK_STRING_BYTES]: Call
@@ -44,7 +48,7 @@
 
         * xterm.c (XTread_socket) <LeaveNotify>: Set help_echo to nil.
 
-2001-01-07  Dave Love  <d.love@dl.ac.uk>
+2001-01-07  Dave Love  <fx@gnu.org>
 
         * keyboard.c (Fread_key_sequence_vector):  Avoid newline in
         arglist, for documentation's sake.
diff --git a/src/sysdep.c b/src/sysdep.c
index 0e1b364be72..339a3c2941a 100644
--- a/src/sysdep.c
+++ b/src/sysdep.c
@@ -30,7 +30,12 @@ Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.  */
 /* Including stdlib.h isn't necessarily enough to get srandom
    declared, e.g. without __USE_XOPEN_EXTENDED with glibc 2.  */
 #ifdef HAVE_RANDOM
+#if 0 /* It turns out that defining _OSF_SOURCE in osf5-0.h gets
+         random prototyped as returning `int'.  It looks to me as
+         though the best way to DTRT is to prefer the rand48 functions
+         (per libc.info).  -- fx */
 extern long int random P_ ((void));
+#endif
 #if 0 /* Don't prototype srandom; it takes an unsigned argument on
          some systems, and an unsigned long on others, like FreeBSD
          4.1.  */