7.8. RANDOM: A Callable Function
We now present an example of linking an external function written in assembly language to a main program written in a high-level language. This function, which produces successive “ran dom” numbers, will also illustrate the calling of routines to compute the remainder from integer division as well as to obtain a nonrepeating initialization value.
High-level languages have not always specified functions for producing pseudo-random values, though modern compilers tend to include an extension to languages lacking such a standard. A large body of work exists on the challenging topic of how to generate and test sequences of random numbers (see Ferrenberg, Hayes, Knuth, Park).
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