[m-dev.] trivial diff: use rand instead of random with MSVC

[Fergus Henderson]

On 08-Dec-2000, Ralph Becket <rbeck at microsoft.com> wrote:
> > boehm_gc/dbg_mlc.c:
> >     If we are using MSVC, call rand() instead of random(), as random()
> >     doesn't exist.
> 
> That's a shame: the standard implementation of rand() generates sequences
> where the bottom four bits (IIRC) are cyclic.
> 
> Not a problem for now, though.

Yes, this is just in debugging code that is turned off by default and
for which the randomness of the low bits doesn't really matter much.

Anyway this is Hans Boehm's problem, not ours ;-)
I've reported the problem to him.

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