1 /* gmp_urandomm_ui -- uniform random number 0 to N-1 for ulong N.
3 Copyright 2003, 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
5 This file is part of the GNU MP Library.
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25 /* If n is a power of 2 then the test ret<n is always true and the loop is
26 unnecessary, but there's no need to add special code for this. Just get
27 the "bits" calculation correct and let it go through normally.
29 If n is 1 then will have bits==0 and _gmp_rand will produce no output and
30 we always return 0. Again there seems no need for a special case, just
31 initialize a[0]=0 and let it go through normally. */
33 #define MAX_URANDOMM_ITER 80
36 gmp_urandomm_ui (gmp_randstate_ptr rstate
, unsigned long n
)
38 mp_limb_t a
[LIMBS_PER_ULONG
];
39 unsigned long ret
, bits
, leading
;
42 if (UNLIKELY (n
== 0))
45 /* start with zeros, since if bits==0 then _gmp_rand will store nothing at
46 all (bits==0 arises when n==1), or if bits <= GMP_NUMB_BITS then it
47 will store only a[0]. */
49 #if LIMBS_PER_ULONG > 1
53 count_leading_zeros (leading
, (mp_limb_t
) n
);
54 bits
= GMP_LIMB_BITS
- leading
- (POW2_P(n
) != 0);
56 for (i
= 0; i
< MAX_URANDOMM_ITER
; i
++)
58 _gmp_rand (a
, rstate
, bits
);
59 #if LIMBS_PER_ULONG == 1
62 ret
= a
[0] | (a
[1] << GMP_NUMB_BITS
);
64 if (LIKELY (ret
< n
)) /* usually one iteration suffices */
68 /* Too many iterations, there must be something degenerate about the
69 rstate algorithm. Return r%n. */