xref: /dragonfly/sys/libkern/random.c (revision b40e316c)
1 /*-
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33  *	@(#)random.c	8.1 (Berkeley) 6/10/93
34  * $FreeBSD: src/sys/libkern/random.c,v 1.7 1999/08/28 00:46:36 peter Exp $
35  * $DragonFly: src/sys/libkern/random.c,v 1.5 2004/01/28 14:36:00 joerg Exp $
36  */
37 
38 #include <sys/libkern.h>
39 
40 static u_long randseed = 1;
41 
42 void
43 srandom(u_long seed)
44 {
45 	randseed = seed;
46 }
47 
48 /*
49  * Pseudo-random number generator for randomizing the profiling clock,
50  * and whatever else we might use it for.  The result is uniform on
51  * [0, 2^31 - 1].
52  */
53 u_long
54 random(void)
55 {
56 	long x, hi, lo, t;
57 
58 	/*
59 	 * Compute x[n + 1] = (7^5 * x[n]) mod (2^31 - 1).
60 	 * From "Random number generators: good ones are hard to find",
61 	 * Park and Miller, Communications of the ACM, vol. 31, no. 10,
62 	 * October 1988, p. 1195.
63 	 */
64 	x = randseed;
65 	hi = x / 127773;
66 	lo = x % 127773;
67 	t = 16807 * lo - 2836 * hi;
68 	if (t <= 0)
69 		t += 0x7fffffff;
70 	randseed = t;
71 	return (t);
72 }
73