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*/
/* Businesses and individuals that for commercial or other reasons cannot
comply with the terms of the GPLv2 license may obtain a commercial license
before incorporating Reliance Edge into proprietary software for
distribution in any form. Visit http://www.datalight.com/reliance-edge for
more information.
*/
/** @file
@brief Implements a random number generator.
*/
#include <redfs.h>
#include <redtestutils.h>
/* This is the global seed used by the random number generator when the caller
has not provided a seed to either the RedRand32() or RedRand64() functions.
*/
static uint64_t ullGlobalRandomNumberSeed;
/* Whether the above seed has been initialized.
*/
static bool fGlobalSeedInited;
/** @brief Set the global seed used by the random number generator.
The global seed gets used when RedRand64() or RedRand32() are called with
a NULL seed argument.
@param ullSeed The value to use as the global RNG seed.
*/
void RedRandSeed(
uint64_t ullSeed)
{
ullGlobalRandomNumberSeed = ullSeed;
fGlobalSeedInited = true;
}
/** @brief Generate a 64-bit pseudo-random number.
The period of this random number generator is 2^64 (1.8 x 1019). These
parameters are the same as the default one-stream SPRNG lcg64 generator and
it satisfies the requirements for a maximal period.
The tempering value is used and an AND mask and is specifically selected to
favor the distribution of lower bits.
@param pullSeed A pointer to the seed to use. Set this value to NULL to
use the internal global seed value.
@return A pseudo-random number in the range [0, UINT64_MAX].
*/
uint64_t RedRand64(
uint64_t *pullSeed)
{
const uint64_t ullA = UINT64_SUFFIX(2862933555777941757);
const uint64_t ullC = UINT64_SUFFIX(3037000493);
const uint64_t ullT = UINT64_SUFFIX(4921441182957829599);
uint64_t ullN;
uint64_t *pullSeedPtr;
uint64_t ullLocalSeed;
if(pullSeed != NULL)
{
ullLocalSeed = *pullSeed;
pullSeedPtr = pullSeed;
}
else
{
if(!fGlobalSeedInited)
{
/* Unfortunately, the Reliance Edge OS services don't give us much
to work with to initialize the global seed. There is no entropy
abstraction, no tick count abstraction, and the timestamp
abstraction uses an opaque type which is not guaranteed to be an
integer. The best we can do is use the RTC.
Tests using the RNG should be supplying a seed anyway, for
reproducibility.
*/
RedRandSeed((uint64_t)RedOsClockGetTime());
}
ullLocalSeed = ullGlobalRandomNumberSeed;
pullSeedPtr = &ullGlobalRandomNumberSeed;
}
ullN = (ullLocalSeed * ullA) + ullC;
*pullSeedPtr = ullN;
/* The linear congruential generator used above produces good psuedo-random
64-bit number sequences, however, as with any LCG, the period of the
lower order bits is much shorter resulting in alternately odd/even pairs
in bit zero.
The result of the LGC above is tempered below with a series of XOR and
shift operations to produce a more acceptable equidistribution of bits
throughout the 64-bit range.
*/
ullN ^= (ullN >> 21U) & ullT;
ullN ^= (ullN >> 43U) & ullT;
ullN ^= (ullN << 23U) & ~ullT;
ullN ^= (ullN << 31U) & ~ullT;
return ullN;
}
/** @brief Generate a 32-bit pseudo-random number.
@note The 32-bit random number generator internally uses the 64-bit random
number generator, returning the low 32-bits of the pseudo-random
64-bit value.
@param pulSeed A pointer to the seed to use. Set this value to NULL to use
the internal global seed value.
@return A pseudo-random number in the range [0, UINT32_MAX].
*/
uint32_t RedRand32(
uint32_t *pulSeed)
{
uint64_t ullN;
if(pulSeed != NULL)
{
uint64_t ullLocalSeed;
ullLocalSeed = *pulSeed;
ullN = RedRand64(&ullLocalSeed);
*pulSeed = (uint32_t)ullLocalSeed;
}
else
{
ullN = RedRand64(NULL);
}
return (uint32_t)ullN;
}