Subject: Re: SDL-News: how to generate a random number in SDL?
From: Rick Reed TSE (rickreed#tseng.co.uk)
Date: Mon Feb 17 2003 - 21:41:31 GMT
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Scott Shen at Scott.Shen#holleycomm.com wrote on 17/02/2003 18:37:
> Hi:
>
> Random number is used intensively in communication protocols. Is there a
> stadardized way to generate a random number is SDL? Thanks,
Yes - and No.
The ANY expression, for example in
SYNTYPE Byte = INTEGER CONSTANTS (0:256) ENDSYNTYPE Byte;
DCL rb Byte;
rb:=ANY(Byte); /* a Byte value */
returns an unspecified value within the range of values of the specified
sort, constrained to the values of the syntype if a syntype is given. In
other words ANY(Byte) gives an unspecified value in the range 0 to 256.
However, there is no specification of the distribution of the values. Hence,
the following sequences are all consistent with the SDL definition of ANY:
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, ...
10, 10, 10, 10, ...
234, 3, 155, 162, 93, 155 ...
Part of the issue is how to specify the randomness of the numbers.
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