ladybird/AK/Random.cpp
Dan Klishch 5ed7cd6e32 Everywhere: Use east const in more places
These changes are compatible with clang-format 16 and will be mandatory
when we eventually bump clang-format version. So, since there are no
real downsides, let's commit them now.
2024-04-19 06:31:19 -04:00

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/*
* Copyright (c) 2021, the SerenityOS developers.
*
* SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-2-Clause
*/
#include <AK/Random.h>
#include <AK/UFixedBigInt.h>
#include <AK/UFixedBigIntDivision.h>
namespace AK {
u32 get_random_uniform(u32 max_bounds)
{
// If we try to divide all 2**32 numbers into groups of "max_bounds" numbers, we may end up
// with a group around 2**32-1 that is a bit too small. For this reason, the implementation
// `arc4random() % max_bounds` would be insufficient. Here we compute the last number of the
// last "full group". Note that if max_bounds is a divisor of UINT32_MAX,
// then we end up with UINT32_MAX:
u32 const max_usable = UINT32_MAX - (static_cast<u64>(UINT32_MAX) + 1) % max_bounds;
auto random_value = get_random<u32>();
for (int i = 0; i < 20 && random_value > max_usable; ++i) {
// By chance we picked a value from the incomplete group. Note that this group has size at
// most 2**31-1, so picking this group has a chance of less than 50%.
// In practice, this means that for the worst possible input, there is still only a
// once-in-a-million chance to get to iteration 20. In theory we should be able to loop
// forever. Here we prefer marginally imperfect random numbers over weird runtime behavior.
random_value = get_random<u32>();
}
return random_value % max_bounds;
}
u64 get_random_uniform_64(u64 max_bounds)
{
// Uses the same algorithm as `get_random_uniform`,
// by replacing u64 with u128 and u32 with u64.
u64 const max_usable = UINT64_MAX - static_cast<u64>((static_cast<u128>(UINT64_MAX) + 1) % max_bounds);
auto random_value = get_random<u64>();
for (int i = 0; i < 20 && random_value > max_usable; ++i) {
random_value = get_random<u64>();
}
return random_value % max_bounds;
}
}