/* $OpenBSD: random.s,v 1.4 2003/04/17 03:42:14 drahn Exp $ */ /* $NetBSD: random.s,v 1.5 1995/01/15 23:20:33 mycroft Exp $ */ /* * Copyright (c) 1995 Charles Hannum. * Copyright (c) 1990,1993 The Regents of the University of California. * All rights reserved. * * Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without * modification, are permitted provided that: (1) source code distributions * retain the above copyright notice and this paragraph in its entirety, (2) * distributions including binary code include the above copyright notice and * this paragraph in its entirety in the documentation or other materials * provided with the distribution, and (3) all advertising materials mentioning * features or use of this software display the following acknowledgement: * ``This product includes software developed by the University of California, * Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory and its contributors.'' Neither the name of * the University nor the names of its contributors may be used to endorse * or promote products derived from this software without specific prior * written permission. * THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED ``AS IS'' AND WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED * WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF * MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. * * Here is a very good random number generator. This implementation is * based on ``Two Fast Implementations of the "Minimal Standard" Random * Number Generator'', David G. Carta, Communications of the ACM, Jan 1990, * Vol 33 No 1. Do NOT modify this code unless you have a very thorough * understanding of the algorithm. It's trickier than you think. If * you do change it, make sure that its 10,000'th invocation returns * 1043618065. * * Here is easier-to-decipher pseudocode: * * p = (16807*seed)<30:0> # e.g., the low 31 bits of the product * q = (16807*seed)<62:31> # e.g., the high 31 bits starting at bit 32 * if (p + q < 2^31) * seed = p + q * else * seed = ((p + q) & (2^31 - 1)) + 1 * return (seed); * * The result is in (0,2^31), e.g., it's always positive. */ #include .data .globl _C_LABEL(_randseed) _C_LABEL(_randseed): .long 1 .text ENTRY(random) movl $16807,%eax imull _C_LABEL(_randseed) shld $1,%eax,%edx andl $0x7fffffff,%eax addl %edx,%eax js 1f movl %eax,_C_LABEL(_randseed) ret 1: subl $0x7fffffff,%eax movl %eax,_C_LABEL(_randseed) ret