xref: /freebsd/stand/libsa/random.c (revision bdcbfde31e8e9b343f113a1956384bdf30d1ed62)
1 /*-
2  * Copyright (c) 1992, 1993
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28  */
29 
30 #include <sys/cdefs.h>
31 #include <sys/types.h>
32 
33 static long randseed = 1;
34 
35 void
36 srandom(unsigned int seed)
37 {
38 
39 	randseed = seed;
40 }
41 
42 /*
43  * Pseudo-random number generator for randomizing the profiling clock,
44  * and whatever else we might use it for.  The result is uniform on
45  * [0, 2^31 - 1].
46  */
47 long
48 random(void)
49 {
50 	long x, hi, lo, t;
51 
52 	/*
53 	 * Compute x[n + 1] = (7^5 * x[n]) mod (2^31 - 1).
54 	 * From "Random number generators: good ones are hard to find",
55 	 * Park and Miller, Communications of the ACM, vol. 31, no. 10,
56 	 * October 1988, p. 1195.
57 	 */
58 	x = randseed;
59 	hi = x / 127773;
60 	lo = x % 127773;
61 	t = 16807 * lo - 2836 * hi;
62 	if (t <= 0)
63 		t += 0x7fffffff;
64 	randseed = t;
65 	return (t);
66 }
67