help with getting drand48() to work

Code:

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#include <iostream>
#include <ctime>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include "PQ.h"

using namespace std;

int main()
{
        PQ my_jobs;                        //PriorityQueue object
        int x;
        int a;
        cout<<drand48()<<endl;
        return 0;
        for(x=0; x<10000; x++)
        {
                a = (rand() % 65535);
                my_jobs.insert(0,a);
        }
        my_jobs.queueStatus();
 
        return 0;
}

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I am using microsoft visual studio c++ and get the following compile time errors with drand48:
main.cpp(14): error C2065: 'drand48' : undeclared identifier
main.cpp(14): error C2593: 'operator <<' is ambiguous

any ideas on how i can fix this?

What's drand48() supposed to do? I think you have to be on a unix machine to use that.

To the best of my knowledge, that is not a standard function in terms of Microsoft's libraries. What do you need it for?

Some points:

1) As you have it, your code will never get beyond that first return statement, i.e. it will never reach the for loop. Is that just for testing purposes?

2) The stdlib.h and stdio.h headers are deprecated, you should have instead used cstdlib and cstdio.

3) The STL already defines a priority_queue object, include the queue header to use it.

the first return statement is for testing purposes i just want to get the drand48 function to work. also i am using my own priority queue "PQ.h". I want to be able to use drand48 with visual studio because otherwise i have to log into a unix terminal at school and working on that is annoying. If there is any way to get drand48 to work that would be appreciated.

:confused: Is there any reason you can't use rand() instead?