glib/glib/grand.h
George Lebl 80591652ff Add the init_by_array functionality from the reference implementation of
Fri Dec 19 11:49:21 2003  George Lebl <jirka@5z.com>

        * glib/grand.c
          glib/grand.h (g_rand_new) (g_rand_new_with_seed)
          (g_rand_new_with_seed_array) (g_rand_set_seed_array):  Add
          the init_by_array functionality from the reference implementation
          of the mersenne twister (mt19937ar.c) and change the naming
          to fit with the rest of the grand API.  New functions are
          g_rand_new_with_seed_array, g_rand_set_seed_array.  This is only
          reliable/tested for the 2.2 version of the seeding as that's what
          the reference implementation uses.  Also modify g_rand_new to
          get 4 longs from /dev/urandom since that will always be available
          anyway and we get more entropy and if /dev/urandom is unavailable
          use also 4 longs for seeding using secs, usecs, getpid and getppid.
          For version 2.0 use only a simple seed again but be more careful
          about seeding with secs/usecs in this case.

        * glib/grand.c
          glib/grand.h (g_rand_copy):  Add g_rand_copy function to copy the
          current state of the random number generator.

        * glib/grand.c (g_rand_new):  Add testing for EINTR when reading
          from /dev/urandom

        * tests/rand-test.c: add testing of the array seeding stuff against
          the reference implementation, plus add statistical sanity check
          to see that the values outputted are truly kind of random.  And
          check that g_rand_copy truly copies the state by checking a few
          terms.
2004-01-10 01:38:55 +00:00

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/* GLIB - Library of useful routines for C programming
* Copyright (C) 1995-1997 Peter Mattis, Spencer Kimball and Josh MacDonald
*
* This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
* modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
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*
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*
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*/
/*
* Modified by the GLib Team and others 1997-2000. See the AUTHORS
* file for a list of people on the GLib Team. See the ChangeLog
* files for a list of changes. These files are distributed with
* GLib at ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/gtk/.
*/
#ifndef __G_RAND_H__
#define __G_RAND_H__
#include <glib/gtypes.h>
G_BEGIN_DECLS
typedef struct _GRand GRand;
/* GRand - a good and fast random number generator: Mersenne Twister
* see http://www.math.keio.ac.jp/~matumoto/emt.html for more info.
* The range functions return a value in the intervall [begin, end).
* int -> [0..2^32-1]
* int_range -> [begin..end-1]
* double -> [0..1)
* double_range -> [begin..end)
*/
GRand* g_rand_new_with_seed (guint32 seed);
GRand* g_rand_new_with_seed_array (const guint32 *seed,
guint seed_length);
GRand* g_rand_new (void);
void g_rand_free (GRand *rand_);
GRand* g_rand_copy (GRand *rand_);
void g_rand_set_seed (GRand *rand_,
guint32 seed);
void g_rand_set_seed_array (GRand *rand_,
const guint32 *seed,
guint seed_length);
#define g_rand_boolean(rand_) ((g_rand_int (rand_) & (1 << 15)) != 0)
guint32 g_rand_int (GRand *rand_);
gint32 g_rand_int_range (GRand *rand_,
gint32 begin,
gint32 end);
gdouble g_rand_double (GRand *rand_);
gdouble g_rand_double_range (GRand *rand_,
gdouble begin,
gdouble end);
void g_random_set_seed (guint32 seed);
#define g_random_boolean() ((g_random_int () & (1 << 15)) != 0)
guint32 g_random_int (void);
gint32 g_random_int_range (gint32 begin,
gint32 end);
gdouble g_random_double (void);
gdouble g_random_double_range (gdouble begin,
gdouble end);
G_END_DECLS
#endif /* __G_RAND_H__ */