Dogcows Code - chaz/yoink/blob - src/Moof/Random.cc

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  29 #include <climits>              // ULONG_MAX
  30 #include <cmath>                // log
  31 #include <cstdlib>              // srand, rand, RAND_MAX
  32 #include <ctime>                // time
  33
  34 #include "Random.hh"
  35
  36
  37 namespace Mf {
  38
  39
  40 unsigned setSeed(unsigned theSeed)
  41 {
  42         srand(theSeed);
  43         return theSeed;
  44 }
  45
  46 unsigned setSeed()
  47 {
  48         return setSeed(time(0));
  49 }
  50
  51
  52 template <typename T>
  53 T getRandom()
  54 {
  55         const  float ln2 = 0.693147;
  56         static const unsigned bitsPerPiece = std::log(float(RAND_MAX)) / ln2;
  57         static const unsigned sizeOfType = sizeof(T) * 8;
  58         static const unsigned pieces = sizeOfType / bitsPerPiece +
  59                                                                  ((sizeOfType % bitsPerPiece) ? 1 : 0);
  60
  61         T bits = 0;
  62
  63         // we need to call rand() multiple times if it won't provide enough random
  64         // bits to fill the size of the given type
  65         for (unsigned i = 0; i < pieces; i++)
  66         {
  67                 long piece = rand();
  68                 bits |= piece << (i * bitsPerPiece);
  69         }
  70
  71         return bits;
  72 }
  73
  74
  75 template <>
  76 bool getRandom<bool>()
  77 {
  78         return rand() % 2;
  79 }
  80
  81 template <typename T>
  82 T getRandom(T lower, T upper)
  83 {
  84         unsigned short randInt = getRandom<unsigned int>();
  85         return lower + T(randInt % (upper - lower + 1));
  86 }
  87
  88 template <>
  89 float getRandom(float lower, float upper)
  90 {
  91         unsigned long randInt = getRandom<unsigned long>();
  92         return (float(randInt) / float(ULONG_MAX)) * (upper - lower) + lower;
  93 }
  94
  95 template <>
  96 double getRandom(double lower, double upper)
  97 {
  98         unsigned long long randInt = getRandom<unsigned long long>();
  99         return (double(randInt) / double(ULLONG_MAX)) * (upper - lower) + lower;
 100 }
 101
 102 template <>
 103 float getRandom()
 104 {
 105         return getRandom<float>(0.0, 1.0);
 106 }
 107
 108 template <>
 109 double getRandom()
 110 {
 111         return getRandom<double>(0.0, 1.0);
 112 }
 113
 114
 115 }; // namespace Mf
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 117 /** vim: set ts=4 sw=4 tw=80: *************************************************/
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