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What range would you like to have? 16 bits on 8bitters already seems to be plenty!
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I'd like to have 0...255 or -128...127 on 8 bit and 0...65535 or -32768 ... 32767 on 16 bit. The simplest solution would be something like
union _secret { uint8_t u; int8_t i; } secret;
uint8_t randu8() { return xorshift() & 0xFF; }
int8_t randi8() { _secret.u = randu8(); return _secret.i; }
... and similarly for 16 bit. [I'm sure there's a C++ convention for bit-converting unsigned to signed but I don't know what it is].
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I don't understand, why not using
int8_t rand(int8_t minval, int8_t maxval);
int rand(int minval, int maxval);
which are respectively 8 and 16 bits on AVR.
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Because the range of rand is minval to maxval-1, not to maxval.
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Ah, I get it. Well, this is coherent with Arduino's random()
function.
I am not at the origins of these but if you look at the implementation this is done to avoid type promotion. Of course, it would be quite easy to add overloaded functions without maxval
as a parameter which would return in the full type range, for instance (untested):
int8_t rand()
{
return (int8_t) lowByte(xorshift96());
}
Welcome to submit a PR ;), otherwise will try to do it soon⦠If @tfry-git and @sensorium are not against this could go in.
Edit: I guess this version would not work as the compiler will not know which one to use between the different return types, with no parameter, hence the name rand()
can probably not be used, but rand_uint8
could.
(Still wondering if having the last value, which will not pop-up very frequently indeed, is actually of any use, but thsese "bare" functions would be faster which sounds appealing).
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Maybe we don't really need all of these. Essentially, all these would do is call xorshift96() and then cast to a type that needs to be named, explicitly, anyway. (Note that the existing overloads perform additional computation with a given precision, and therefore these do make sense, indeed).
Brainstorming some ideas:
- we could create a parameter-less
long rand()
simply as a friendly-sounding alias toxorshift96()
- bit-casting between signed and unsigned is the only really cumbersome exercise, so maybe have one
randUnsigned()
and onerandSigned()
variant for convenience (the latter, again, being a mere alias toxorshift96()
). - isn't this a great opportunity for templating?
rand<int8_t>()
, etc. Except of course, it may be overkill.
And then of course, while we're at it, I suppose it will make sense to convert "int" and "long" to int16_t and int32_t?
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isn't this a great opportunity for templating? rand<int8_t>(), etc. Except of course, it may be overkill.
And to port that for direct, U/SFixMath
random numbers :P ?
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