freebsd-dev/sys/libkern/random.c

/*-
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 *	@(#)random.c	8.1 (Berkeley) 6/10/93
 */

#include <sys/cdefs.h>
__FBSDID("$FreeBSD$");

#include <sys/libkern.h>

#define NSHUFF 50       /* to drop some "seed -> 1st value" linearity */

static u_long randseed = 937186357; /* after srandom(1), NSHUFF counted */

void
srandom(seed)
	u_long seed;
{
	int i;

	randseed = seed;
	for (i = 0; i < NSHUFF; i++)
		(void)random();
}

/*
 * Pseudo-random number generator for perturbing the profiling clock,
 * and whatever else we might use it for.  The result is uniform on
 * [0, 2^31 - 1].
 */
u_long
random()
{
	long x, hi, lo, t;

	/*
	 * Compute x[n + 1] = (7^5 * x[n]) mod (2^31 - 1).
	 * From "Random number generators: good ones are hard to find",
	 * Park and Miller, Communications of the ACM, vol. 31, no. 10,
	 * October 1988, p. 1195.
	 */
	/* Can't be initialized with 0, so use another value. */
	if ((x = randseed) == 0)
		x = 123459876;
	hi = x / 127773;
	lo = x % 127773;
	t = 16807 * lo - 2836 * hi;
	if (t < 0)
		t += 0x7fffffff;
	randseed = t;
	return (t);
}