NetBSD/sys/lib/libkern/random.c

/*	$NetBSD: random.c,v 1.2 1994/10/26 06:42:42 cgd Exp $	*/

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

#include <sys/types.h>

/*
 * Pseudo-random number generator for randomizing the profiling clock,
 * and whatever else we might use it for.  The result is uniform on
 * [0, 2^31 - 1].
 */
u_long
random()
{
	static u_long randseed = 1;
	register 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.
	 */
	x = randseed;
	hi = x / 127773;
	lo = x % 127773;
	t = 16807 * lo - 2836 * hi;
	if (t <= 0)
		t += 0x7fffffff;
	randseed = t;
	return (t);
}