Re: Reading and writing GSL random number generators

[M Atakan Gurkan <ato at northwestern dot edu>]

On Wed, 28 May 2003, Olaf Lenz wrote:

> What type is best to use when you really need one byte (i.e. 8 bit)?
I don't know if this is even relevant but one way to make sure you are dealing
with a single byte is to define your variable as unsigned int and carry
out something like
a &= 0xFF;
every time you change the value of this variable.

ato