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      1 //==- llvm/Support/RandomNumberGenerator.h - RNG for diversity ---*- C++ -*-==//
      2 //
      3 //                     The LLVM Compiler Infrastructure
      4 //
      5 // This file is distributed under the University of Illinois Open Source
      6 // License. See LICENSE.TXT for details.
      7 //
      8 //===----------------------------------------------------------------------===//
      9 //
     10 // This file defines an abstraction for deterministic random number
     11 // generation (RNG).  Note that the current implementation is not
     12 // cryptographically secure as it uses the C++11 <random> facilities.
     13 //
     14 //===----------------------------------------------------------------------===//
     15 
     16 #ifndef LLVM_SUPPORT_RANDOMNUMBERGENERATOR_H_
     17 #define LLVM_SUPPORT_RANDOMNUMBERGENERATOR_H_
     18 
     19 #include "llvm/Support/Compiler.h"
     20 #include "llvm/Support/DataTypes.h" // Needed for uint64_t on Windows.
     21 #include <random>
     22 #include <system_error>
     23 
     24 namespace llvm {
     25 class StringRef;
     26 
     27 /// A random number generator.
     28 ///
     29 /// Instances of this class should not be shared across threads. The
     30 /// seed should be set by passing the -rng-seed=<uint64> option. Use
     31 /// Module::createRNG to create a new RNG instance for use with that
     32 /// module.
     33 class RandomNumberGenerator {
     34 
     35   // 64-bit Mersenne Twister by Matsumoto and Nishimura, 2000
     36   // http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/numeric/random/mersenne_twister_engine
     37   // This RNG is deterministically portable across C++11
     38   // implementations.
     39   using generator_type = std::mt19937_64;
     40 
     41 public:
     42   using result_type = generator_type::result_type;
     43 
     44   /// Returns a random number in the range [0, Max).
     45   result_type operator()();
     46 
     47   static constexpr result_type min() { return generator_type::min(); }
     48   static constexpr result_type max() { return generator_type::max(); }
     49 
     50 private:
     51   /// Seeds and salts the underlying RNG engine.
     52   ///
     53   /// This constructor should not be used directly. Instead use
     54   /// Module::createRNG to create a new RNG salted with the Module ID.
     55   RandomNumberGenerator(StringRef Salt);
     56 
     57   generator_type Generator;
     58 
     59   // Noncopyable.
     60   RandomNumberGenerator(const RandomNumberGenerator &other) = delete;
     61   RandomNumberGenerator &operator=(const RandomNumberGenerator &other) = delete;
     62 
     63   friend class Module;
     64 };
     65 
     66 // Get random vector of specified size
     67 std::error_code getRandomBytes(void *Buffer, size_t Size);
     68 }
     69 
     70 #endif
     71