xref: /freebsd/sys/libkern/random.c (revision 7660b554bc59a07be0431c17e0e33815818baa69)
1 /*-
2  * Copyright (c) 1992, 1993
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32  *
33  *	@(#)random.c	8.1 (Berkeley) 6/10/93
34  */
35 
36 #include <sys/cdefs.h>
37 __FBSDID("$FreeBSD$");
38 
39 #include <sys/libkern.h>
40 
41 #define NSHUFF 50       /* to drop some "seed -> 1st value" linearity */
42 
43 static u_long randseed = 937186357; /* after srandom(1), NSHUFF counted */
44 
45 void
46 srandom(seed)
47 	u_long seed;
48 {
49 	int i;
50 
51 	randseed = seed;
52 	for (i = 0; i < NSHUFF; i++)
53 		(void)random();
54 }
55 
56 /*
57  * Pseudo-random number generator for randomizing the profiling clock,
58  * and whatever else we might use it for.  The result is uniform on
59  * [0, 2^31 - 1].
60  */
61 u_long
62 random()
63 {
64 	register long x, hi, lo, t;
65 
66 	/*
67 	 * Compute x[n + 1] = (7^5 * x[n]) mod (2^31 - 1).
68 	 * From "Random number generators: good ones are hard to find",
69 	 * Park and Miller, Communications of the ACM, vol. 31, no. 10,
70 	 * October 1988, p. 1195.
71 	 */
72 	/* Can't be initialized with 0, so use another value. */
73 	if ((x = randseed) == 0)
74 		x = 123459876;
75 	hi = x / 127773;
76 	lo = x % 127773;
77 	t = 16807 * lo - 2836 * hi;
78 	if (t < 0)
79 		t += 0x7fffffff;
80 	randseed = t;
81 	return (t);
82 }
83