1 // Copyright 2013 the V8 project 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 #ifndef V8_UTILS_RANDOM_NUMBER_GENERATOR_H_ 6 #define V8_UTILS_RANDOM_NUMBER_GENERATOR_H_ 7 8 #include "src/base/macros.h" 9 10 namespace v8 { 11 namespace internal { 12 13 // ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 14 // RandomNumberGenerator 15 // 16 // This class is used to generate a stream of pseudorandom numbers. The class 17 // uses a 48-bit seed, which is modified using a linear congruential formula. 18 // (See Donald Knuth, The Art of Computer Programming, Volume 3, Section 3.2.1.) 19 // If two instances of RandomNumberGenerator are created with the same seed, and 20 // the same sequence of method calls is made for each, they will generate and 21 // return identical sequences of numbers. 22 // This class uses (probably) weak entropy by default, but it's sufficient, 23 // because it is the responsibility of the embedder to install an entropy source 24 // using v8::V8::SetEntropySource(), which provides reasonable entropy, see: 25 // https://code.google.com/p/v8/issues/detail?id=2905 26 // This class is neither reentrant nor threadsafe. 27 28 class RandomNumberGenerator V8_FINAL { 29 public: 30 // EntropySource is used as a callback function when V8 needs a source of 31 // entropy. 32 typedef bool (*EntropySource)(unsigned char* buffer, size_t buflen); 33 static void SetEntropySource(EntropySource entropy_source); 34 35 RandomNumberGenerator(); 36 explicit RandomNumberGenerator(int64_t seed) { SetSeed(seed); } 37 38 // Returns the next pseudorandom, uniformly distributed int value from this 39 // random number generator's sequence. The general contract of |NextInt()| is 40 // that one int value is pseudorandomly generated and returned. 41 // All 2^32 possible integer values are produced with (approximately) equal 42 // probability. 43 V8_INLINE int NextInt() V8_WARN_UNUSED_RESULT { 44 return Next(32); 45 } 46 47 // Returns a pseudorandom, uniformly distributed int value between 0 48 // (inclusive) and the specified max value (exclusive), drawn from this random 49 // number generator's sequence. The general contract of |NextInt(int)| is that 50 // one int value in the specified range is pseudorandomly generated and 51 // returned. All max possible int values are produced with (approximately) 52 // equal probability. 53 int NextInt(int max) V8_WARN_UNUSED_RESULT; 54 55 // Returns the next pseudorandom, uniformly distributed boolean value from 56 // this random number generator's sequence. The general contract of 57 // |NextBoolean()| is that one boolean value is pseudorandomly generated and 58 // returned. The values true and false are produced with (approximately) equal 59 // probability. 60 V8_INLINE bool NextBool() V8_WARN_UNUSED_RESULT { 61 return Next(1) != 0; 62 } 63 64 // Returns the next pseudorandom, uniformly distributed double value between 65 // 0.0 and 1.0 from this random number generator's sequence. 66 // The general contract of |NextDouble()| is that one double value, chosen 67 // (approximately) uniformly from the range 0.0 (inclusive) to 1.0 68 // (exclusive), is pseudorandomly generated and returned. 69 double NextDouble() V8_WARN_UNUSED_RESULT; 70 71 // Fills the elements of a specified array of bytes with random numbers. 72 void NextBytes(void* buffer, size_t buflen); 73 74 private: 75 static const int64_t kMultiplier = V8_2PART_UINT64_C(0x5, deece66d); 76 static const int64_t kAddend = 0xb; 77 static const int64_t kMask = V8_2PART_UINT64_C(0xffff, ffffffff); 78 79 int Next(int bits) V8_WARN_UNUSED_RESULT; 80 void SetSeed(int64_t seed); 81 82 int64_t seed_; 83 }; 84 85 } } // namespace v8::internal 86 87 #endif // V8_UTILS_RANDOM_NUMBER_GENERATOR_H_ 88
