/* * Copyright (c) 2015 The WebRTC project authors. All Rights Reserved. * * Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license * that can be found in the LICENSE file in the root of the source * tree. An additional intellectual property rights grant can be found * in the file PATENTS. All contributing project authors may * be found in the AUTHORS file in the root of the source tree. */ #ifndef RTC_BASE_RANDOM_H_ #define RTC_BASE_RANDOM_H_ #include #include #include "rtc_base/checks.h" namespace webrtc { class Random { public: // TODO(tommi): Change this so that the seed can be initialized internally, // e.g. by offering two ways of constructing or offer a static method that // returns a seed that's suitable for initialization. // The problem now is that callers are calling clock_->TimeInMicroseconds() // which calls TickTime::Now().Ticks(), which can return a very low value on // Mac and can result in a seed of 0 after conversion to microseconds. // Besides the quality of the random seed being poor, this also requires // the client to take on extra dependencies to generate a seed. // If we go for a static seed generator in Random, we can use something from // webrtc/rtc_base and make sure that it works the same way across platforms. // See also discussion here: https://codereview.webrtc.org/1623543002/ explicit Random(uint64_t seed); Random() = delete; Random(const Random&) = delete; Random& operator=(const Random&) = delete; // Return pseudo-random integer of the specified type. // We need to limit the size to 32 bits to keep the output close to uniform. template T Rand() { static_assert(std::numeric_limits::is_integer && std::numeric_limits::radix == 2 && std::numeric_limits::digits <= 32, "Rand is only supported for built-in integer types that are " "32 bits or smaller."); return static_cast(NextOutput()); } // Uniformly distributed pseudo-random number in the interval [0, t]. uint32_t Rand(uint32_t t); // Uniformly distributed pseudo-random number in the interval [low, high]. uint32_t Rand(uint32_t low, uint32_t high); // Uniformly distributed pseudo-random number in the interval [low, high]. int32_t Rand(int32_t low, int32_t high); // Normal Distribution. double Gaussian(double mean, double standard_deviation); // Exponential Distribution. double Exponential(double lambda); private: // Outputs a nonzero 64-bit random number using Xorshift algorithm. // https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xorshift uint64_t NextOutput() { state_ ^= state_ >> 12; state_ ^= state_ << 25; state_ ^= state_ >> 27; RTC_DCHECK(state_ != 0x0ULL); return state_ * 2685821657736338717ull; } uint64_t state_; }; // Return pseudo-random number in the interval [0.0, 1.0). template <> float Random::Rand(); // Return pseudo-random number in the interval [0.0, 1.0). template <> double Random::Rand(); // Return pseudo-random boolean value. template <> bool Random::Rand(); } // namespace webrtc #endif // RTC_BASE_RANDOM_H_