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1*4a5d661aSToomas Soome /*-
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9*4a5d661aSToomas Soome  *    notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
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15*4a5d661aSToomas Soome  *    without specific prior written permission.
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27*4a5d661aSToomas Soome  * SUCH DAMAGE.
28*4a5d661aSToomas Soome  *
29*4a5d661aSToomas Soome  *	@(#)random.c	8.1 (Berkeley) 6/10/93
30*4a5d661aSToomas Soome  */
31*4a5d661aSToomas Soome 
32*4a5d661aSToomas Soome #include <sys/cdefs.h>
33*4a5d661aSToomas Soome __FBSDID("$FreeBSD$");
34*4a5d661aSToomas Soome 
35*4a5d661aSToomas Soome #include <sys/types.h>
36*4a5d661aSToomas Soome 
37*4a5d661aSToomas Soome static u_long randseed = 1;
38*4a5d661aSToomas Soome 
39*4a5d661aSToomas Soome void
40*4a5d661aSToomas Soome srandom(seed)
41*4a5d661aSToomas Soome 	u_long seed;
42*4a5d661aSToomas Soome {
43*4a5d661aSToomas Soome 	randseed = seed;
44*4a5d661aSToomas Soome }
45*4a5d661aSToomas Soome 
46*4a5d661aSToomas Soome /*
47*4a5d661aSToomas Soome  * Pseudo-random number generator for randomizing the profiling clock,
48*4a5d661aSToomas Soome  * and whatever else we might use it for.  The result is uniform on
49*4a5d661aSToomas Soome  * [0, 2^31 - 1].
50*4a5d661aSToomas Soome  */
51*4a5d661aSToomas Soome u_long
52*4a5d661aSToomas Soome random()
53*4a5d661aSToomas Soome {
54*4a5d661aSToomas Soome 	long x, hi, lo, t;
55*4a5d661aSToomas Soome 
56*4a5d661aSToomas Soome 	/*
57*4a5d661aSToomas Soome 	 * Compute x[n + 1] = (7^5 * x[n]) mod (2^31 - 1).
58*4a5d661aSToomas Soome 	 * From "Random number generators: good ones are hard to find",
59*4a5d661aSToomas Soome 	 * Park and Miller, Communications of the ACM, vol. 31, no. 10,
60*4a5d661aSToomas Soome 	 * October 1988, p. 1195.
61*4a5d661aSToomas Soome 	 */
62*4a5d661aSToomas Soome 	x = randseed;
63*4a5d661aSToomas Soome 	hi = x / 127773;
64*4a5d661aSToomas Soome 	lo = x % 127773;
65*4a5d661aSToomas Soome 	t = 16807 * lo - 2836 * hi;
66*4a5d661aSToomas Soome 	if (t <= 0)
67*4a5d661aSToomas Soome 		t += 0x7fffffff;
68*4a5d661aSToomas Soome 	randseed = t;
69*4a5d661aSToomas Soome 	return (t);
70*4a5d661aSToomas Soome }
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