/* * aegis - project change supervisor * Copyright (C) 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995 Peter Miller; * All rights reserved. * * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by * the Free Software Foundation; either version 1, or (at your option) * any later version. * * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the * GNU General Public License for more details. * * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License * along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software * Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111, USA. * * MANIFEST: good fast random number generator * * from Kirkpatrick, S. and E. Stoll, * "A Very Fast Shift-Register Sequence Random Number Generator", * Journal of Computational Physics, vol. 40, p. 157 (1981). */ #include #include #include #include static unsigned long buf[250]; static unsigned long *pos; #define rand8() ((rand() >> 7) & 255) void r250_init() { unsigned long bit; unsigned long *bp; /* * initialize crummy linear congruential */ srand(time((time_t *)0) + getpid()); /* * position to start of array */ pos = buf; /* * initialise contents of array */ for (bp = buf; bp < ENDOF(buf); ++bp) { *bp = ( ((unsigned long)rand8() << 24) | ((unsigned long)rand8() << 16) | ((unsigned long)rand8() << 8) | (unsigned long)rand8() ); } /* * make sure the bits are linearly independent */ for (bit = 1, bp = buf + 3; bit; bp += 11, bit <<= 1) { if (bp >= ENDOF(buf)) bp -= SIZEOF(buf); *bp = (*bp & ~(bit - 1)) | bit; } } unsigned long r250() { unsigned long result; unsigned long *other; other = pos + 103; if (other >= ENDOF(buf)) other -= SIZEOF(buf); *pos ^= *other; result = *pos++; if (pos >= ENDOF(buf)) pos = buf; return result; }