(* Random.mod provides a Logitech-3.0 compatible library. Copyright (C) 2005-2025 Free Software Foundation, Inc. Contributed by Gaius Mulley . This file is part of GNU Modula-2. GNU Modula-2 is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 3, or (at your option) any later version. GNU Modula-2 is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. Under Section 7 of GPL version 3, you are granted additional permissions described in the GCC Runtime Library Exception, version 3.1, as published by the Free Software Foundation. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License and a copy of the GCC Runtime Library Exception along with this program; see the files COPYING3 and COPYING.RUNTIME respectively. If not, see . *) IMPLEMENTATION MODULE Random ; FROM libc IMPORT rand, srand ; FROM Selective IMPORT Timeval, InitTime, KillTime, GetTime, GetTimeOfDay ; (* Randomize - initialize the random number generator with a seed based on the microseconds. *) PROCEDURE Randomize ; VAR t : Timeval ; sec, usec: CARDINAL ; BEGIN t := InitTime (0, 0) ; IF GetTimeOfDay (t) = 0 THEN END ; GetTime (t, sec, usec) ; RandomInit (usec) ; t := KillTime (t) END Randomize ; (* RandomInit - initialize the random number generator with value, seed. *) PROCEDURE RandomInit (seed: CARDINAL) ; BEGIN srand (seed) END RandomInit ; (* RandomBytes - fills in an array with random values. *) PROCEDURE RandomBytes (VAR a: ARRAY OF BYTE) ; VAR i, h: CARDINAL ; BEGIN h := HIGH (a) ; i := 0 ; WHILE i <= h DO a[i] := VAL (BYTE, rand ()) ; INC (i) END END RandomBytes ; (* RandomInt - return an INTEGER in the range 0..bound-1 *) PROCEDURE RandomInt (bound: INTEGER) : INTEGER ; BEGIN IF bound=0 THEN RETURN rand () ELSE RETURN rand () MOD bound END END RandomInt ; (* RandomCard - return a CARDINAL in the range 0..bound-1 *) PROCEDURE RandomCard (bound: CARDINAL) : CARDINAL ; VAR c: CARDINAL ; BEGIN RandomBytes (c) ; RETURN c MOD bound END RandomCard ; (* RandomReal - return a REAL number in the range 0.0..1.0 *) PROCEDURE RandomReal () : REAL ; BEGIN RETURN RandomLongReal () END RandomReal ; (* RandomLongReal - return a LONGREAL number in the range 0.0..1.0 *) PROCEDURE RandomLongReal () : LONGREAL ; VAR l: LONGCARD ; BEGIN RandomBytes (l) ; RETURN VAL (LONGREAL, l) / VAL (LONGREAL, MAX (LONGCARD)) END RandomLongReal ; BEGIN Randomize END Random.