random.c

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 * Posix rand_r function added May 1999 by Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com>.
 *
 * $Id$
 */

/*
 * From:
static char sccsid[] = "@(#)rand.c  8.1 (Berkeley) 6/14/93";
*/

#include <stdlib.h>
#include "sectionname.h"

ATTRIBUTE_CLIB_SECTION
static long
do_random(unsigned long *ctx)
{
    /*
     * Compute x = (7^5 * x) mod (2^31 - 1)
     * wihout overflowing 31 bits:
     *      (2^31 - 1) = 127773 * (7^5) + 2836
     * 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.
     */
    long hi, lo, x;

    x = *ctx;
    /* Can't be initialized with 0, so use another value. */
    if (x == 0)
        x = 123459876L;
    hi = x / 127773L;
    lo = x % 127773L;
    x = 16807L * lo - 2836L * hi;
    if (x < 0)
        x += 0x7fffffffL;
    return ((*ctx = x) % ((unsigned long)RANDOM_MAX + 1));
}


ATTRIBUTE_CLIB_SECTION
long
random_r(unsigned long *ctx)
{
    return do_random(ctx);
}


static unsigned long next = 1;

ATTRIBUTE_CLIB_SECTION
long
random(void)
{
    return do_random(&next);
}

ATTRIBUTE_CLIB_SECTION
void
srandom(unsigned long seed)
{
    next = seed;
}