你可以生成随机字符，然后将它们视为int:

#include <stdlib.h>
#include <stdio.h>

typedef double rand_type; // change double to int

rand_type my_rand() {
    char buff[sizeof(rand_type)];
    for (size_t i = 0 ; i < sizeof(rand_type) ; ++i)
        buff[i] = (char) rand();
    return *(rand_type *) buff;
}

int main() {
    int i ; // srand as you want
    for (i = 0 ; i < 10 ; ++i)
        printf("%g\n", my_rand()); // change %g to %d
    return 0 ;
}

<stdlib.h>中的rand()函数返回一个介于0和RAND_MAX之间的伪随机整数。你可以使用srand(unsigned int seed)来设置种子。

通常的做法是将%操作符与rand()结合使用以获得不同的范围(但请记住，这在一定程度上破坏了一致性)。例如:

/* random int between 0 and 19 */
int r = rand() % 20;

如果你真的在乎一致性，你可以这样做:

/* Returns an integer in the range [0, n).
 *
 * Uses rand(), and so is affected-by/affects the same seed.
 */
int randint(int n) {
  if ((n - 1) == RAND_MAX) {
    return rand();
  } else {
    // Supporting larger values for n would requires an even more
    // elaborate implementation that combines multiple calls to rand()
    assert (n <= RAND_MAX)

    // Chop off all of the values that would cause skew...
    int end = RAND_MAX / n; // truncate skew
    assert (end > 0);
    end *= n;

    // ... and ignore results from rand() that fall above that limit.
    // (Worst case the loop condition should succeed 50% of the time,
    // so we can expect to bail out of this loop pretty quickly.)
    int r;
    while ((r = rand()) >= end);

    return r % n;
  }
}

对于c, STL不存在，你必须调用rand，或者更好的是，随机。它们在标准库头文件stdlib.h中声明。rand是POSIX, random是BSD规范函数。

rand和random之间的区别是random返回一个更有用的32位随机数，而rand通常返回一个16位数。BSD手册显示rand的较低位是循环的和可预测的，因此rand对于较小的数字可能是无用的。

试试这个，我把上面已经提到的一些概念放在一起:

/*    
Uses the srand() function to seed the random number generator based on time value,
then returns an integer in the range 1 to max. Call this with random(n) where n is an integer, and you get an integer as a return value.
 */

int random(int max) {
    srand((unsigned) time(NULL));
    return (rand() % max) + 1;
}

我的极简解决方案应该适用于范围内的随机数[min, max)。在调用函数之前使用srand(time(NULL))。

int range_rand(int min_num, int max_num) {
    if (min_num >= max_num) {
        fprintf(stderr, "min_num is greater or equal than max_num!\n"); 
    }
    return min_num + (rand() % (max_num - min_num));
} 

你可以生成随机字符，然后将它们视为int:

#include <stdlib.h>
#include <stdio.h>

typedef double rand_type; // change double to int

rand_type my_rand() {
    char buff[sizeof(rand_type)];
    for (size_t i = 0 ; i < sizeof(rand_type) ; ++i)
        buff[i] = (char) rand();
    return *(rand_type *) buff;
}

int main() {
    int i ; // srand as you want
    for (i = 0 ; i < 10 ; ++i)
        printf("%g\n", my_rand()); // change %g to %d
    return 0 ;
}