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authorDaniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>2024-04-21 11:44:51 +0000
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Adding upstream version 1:115.7.0.upstream/1%115.7.0upstream
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+/* -*- Mode: C++; tab-width: 8; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 2 -*- */
+/* vim: set ts=8 sts=2 et sw=2 tw=80: */
+/* This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this file,
+ * You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/. */
+
+#include "mozilla/RandomNum.h"
+#include <vector>
+
+/*
+
+ * We're going to check that random number generation is sane on a basic
+ * level - That is, we want to check that the function returns success
+ * and doesn't just keep returning the same number.
+ *
+ * Note that there are many more tests that could be done, but to really test
+ * a PRNG we'd probably need to generate a large set of randoms and
+ * perform statistical analysis on them. Maybe that's worth doing eventually?
+ *
+ * For now we should be fine just performing a dumb test of generating 5
+ * numbers and making sure they're all unique. In theory, it is possible for
+ * this test to report a false negative, but with 5 numbers the probability
+ * is less than one-in-a-trillion.
+ *
+ */
+
+#define NUM_RANDOMS_TO_GENERATE 5
+
+using mozilla::Maybe;
+using mozilla::RandomUint64;
+
+static uint64_t getRandomUint64OrDie() {
+ Maybe<uint64_t> maybeRandomNum = RandomUint64();
+
+ MOZ_RELEASE_ASSERT(maybeRandomNum.isSome());
+
+ return maybeRandomNum.value();
+}
+
+static void TestRandomUint64() {
+ // The allocator uses RandomNum.h too, but its initialization path allocates
+ // memory. While the allocator itself handles the situation, we can't, so
+ // we make sure to use an allocation before getting a Random number ourselves.
+ std::vector<uint64_t> randomsList;
+ randomsList.reserve(NUM_RANDOMS_TO_GENERATE);
+
+ for (uint8_t i = 0; i < NUM_RANDOMS_TO_GENERATE; ++i) {
+ uint64_t randomNum = getRandomUint64OrDie();
+
+ for (uint64_t num : randomsList) {
+ MOZ_RELEASE_ASSERT(randomNum != num);
+ }
+
+ randomsList.push_back(randomNum);
+ }
+}
+
+int main() {
+ TestRandomUint64();
+ return 0;
+}