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      1 // Copyright (c) 2011 The Chromium Authors. All rights reserved.
      2 // Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be
      3 // found in the LICENSE file.
      4 
      5 #include "base/rand_util.h"
      6 
      7 #include <math.h>
      8 
      9 #include <limits>
     10 
     11 #include "base/basictypes.h"
     12 #include "base/logging.h"
     13 #include "base/strings/string_util.h"
     14 
     15 namespace base {
     16 
     17 int RandInt(int min, int max) {
     18   DCHECK_LE(min, max);
     19 
     20   uint64 range = static_cast<uint64>(max) - min + 1;
     21   int result = min + static_cast<int>(base::RandGenerator(range));
     22   DCHECK_GE(result, min);
     23   DCHECK_LE(result, max);
     24   return result;
     25 }
     26 
     27 double RandDouble() {
     28   return BitsToOpenEndedUnitInterval(base::RandUint64());
     29 }
     30 
     31 double BitsToOpenEndedUnitInterval(uint64 bits) {
     32   // We try to get maximum precision by masking out as many bits as will fit
     33   // in the target type's mantissa, and raising it to an appropriate power to
     34   // produce output in the range [0, 1).  For IEEE 754 doubles, the mantissa
     35   // is expected to accommodate 53 bits.
     36 
     37   COMPILE_ASSERT(std::numeric_limits<double>::radix == 2, otherwise_use_scalbn);
     38   static const int kBits = std::numeric_limits<double>::digits;
     39   uint64 random_bits = bits & ((GG_UINT64_C(1) << kBits) - 1);
     40   double result = ldexp(static_cast<double>(random_bits), -1 * kBits);
     41   DCHECK_GE(result, 0.0);
     42   DCHECK_LT(result, 1.0);
     43   return result;
     44 }
     45 
     46 uint64 RandGenerator(uint64 range) {
     47   DCHECK_GT(range, 0u);
     48   // We must discard random results above this number, as they would
     49   // make the random generator non-uniform (consider e.g. if
     50   // MAX_UINT64 was 7 and |range| was 5, then a result of 1 would be twice
     51   // as likely as a result of 3 or 4).
     52   uint64 max_acceptable_value =
     53       (std::numeric_limits<uint64>::max() / range) * range - 1;
     54 
     55   uint64 value;
     56   do {
     57     value = base::RandUint64();
     58   } while (value > max_acceptable_value);
     59 
     60   return value % range;
     61 }
     62 
     63 void RandBytes(void* output, size_t output_length) {
     64   uint64 random_int;
     65   size_t random_int_size = sizeof(random_int);
     66   for (size_t i = 0; i < output_length; i += random_int_size) {
     67     random_int = base::RandUint64();
     68     size_t copy_count = std::min(output_length - i, random_int_size);
     69     memcpy(((uint8*)output) + i, &random_int, copy_count);
     70   }
     71 }
     72 
     73 std::string RandBytesAsString(size_t length) {
     74   DCHECK_GT(length, 0u);
     75   std::string result;
     76   RandBytes(WriteInto(&result, length + 1), length);
     77   return result;
     78 }
     79 
     80 }  // namespace base
     81