lib/libc/rand.c

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//__FBSDID("$FreeBSD: src/lib/libc/stdlib/rand.c,v 1.17.2.1.2.1 2009/10/25 01:10:29 kensmith Exp $");
#include  <stdlib.h>

static unsigned int next = 1;

/** Compute a pseudo-random number.
  *
  * Compute x = (7^5 * x) mod (2^31 - 1)
  * without 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.
**/
int
rand()
{
  int hi, lo, x;

  /* Can't be initialized with 0, so use another value. */
  if (next == 0)
    next = 123459876;
  hi = next / 127773;
  lo = next % 127773;
  x = 16807 * lo - 2836 * hi;
  if (x < 0)
    x += 0x7fffffff;
  return ((next = x) % ((unsigned int)RAND_MAX + 1));
}

void
srand(unsigned int seed)
{
  next = (unsigned int)seed;
}