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1*479ab7f0SSascha Wildner /*-
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28*479ab7f0SSascha Wildner  *
29*479ab7f0SSascha Wildner  *	@(#)random.c	8.1 (Berkeley) 6/10/93
30*479ab7f0SSascha Wildner  * $FreeBSD: src/lib/libstand/random.c,v 1.2.2.1 2000/09/10 01:25:52 ps Exp $
31*479ab7f0SSascha Wildner  * $DragonFly: src/lib/libstand/random.c,v 1.4 2005/12/11 02:27:26 swildner Exp $
32*479ab7f0SSascha Wildner  */
33*479ab7f0SSascha Wildner 
34*479ab7f0SSascha Wildner #include <sys/types.h>
35*479ab7f0SSascha Wildner 
36*479ab7f0SSascha Wildner static u_long randseed = 1;
37*479ab7f0SSascha Wildner 
38*479ab7f0SSascha Wildner void
srandom(u_long seed)39*479ab7f0SSascha Wildner srandom(u_long seed)
40*479ab7f0SSascha Wildner {
41*479ab7f0SSascha Wildner 	randseed = seed;
42*479ab7f0SSascha Wildner }
43*479ab7f0SSascha Wildner 
44*479ab7f0SSascha Wildner /*
45*479ab7f0SSascha Wildner  * Pseudo-random number generator for randomizing the profiling clock,
46*479ab7f0SSascha Wildner  * and whatever else we might use it for.  The result is uniform on
47*479ab7f0SSascha Wildner  * [0, 2^31 - 1].
48*479ab7f0SSascha Wildner  */
49*479ab7f0SSascha Wildner u_long
random(void)50*479ab7f0SSascha Wildner random(void)
51*479ab7f0SSascha Wildner {
52*479ab7f0SSascha Wildner 	long x, hi, lo, t;
53*479ab7f0SSascha Wildner 
54*479ab7f0SSascha Wildner 	/*
55*479ab7f0SSascha Wildner 	 * Compute x[n + 1] = (7^5 * x[n]) mod (2^31 - 1).
56*479ab7f0SSascha Wildner 	 * From "Random number generators: good ones are hard to find",
57*479ab7f0SSascha Wildner 	 * Park and Miller, Communications of the ACM, vol. 31, no. 10,
58*479ab7f0SSascha Wildner 	 * October 1988, p. 1195.
59*479ab7f0SSascha Wildner 	 */
60*479ab7f0SSascha Wildner 	x = randseed;
61*479ab7f0SSascha Wildner 	hi = x / 127773;
62*479ab7f0SSascha Wildner 	lo = x % 127773;
63*479ab7f0SSascha Wildner 	t = 16807 * lo - 2836 * hi;
64*479ab7f0SSascha Wildner 	if (t <= 0)
65*479ab7f0SSascha Wildner 		t += 0x7fffffff;
66*479ab7f0SSascha Wildner 	randseed = t;
67*479ab7f0SSascha Wildner 	return (t);
68*479ab7f0SSascha Wildner }
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