--- deliantra/server/include/util.h	2007/01/15 01:25:41	1.28
+++ deliantra/server/include/util.h	2007/01/19 22:47:57	1.35
@@ -35,6 +35,16 @@
 #define IN_RANGE_EXC(val,beg,end) \
   ((unsigned int)(val) - (unsigned int)(beg) <  (unsigned int)(end) - (unsigned int)(beg))
 
+void fork_abort (const char *msg);
+
+// rationale for using (U) not (T) is to reduce signed/unsigned issues,
+// as a is often a constant while b is the variable. it is still a bug, though.
+template<typename T, typename U> static inline T min (T a, U b) { return (U)a < b ? (U)a : b; }
+template<typename T, typename U> static inline T max (T a, U b) { return (U)a > b ? (U)a : b; }
+template<typename T, typename U, typename V> static inline T clamp (T v, U a, V b) { return v < (T)a ? (T)a : v >(T)b ? (T)b : v; }
+
+template<typename T, typename U> static inline void swap (T& a, U& b) { T t=a; a=(T)b; b=(U)t; }
+
 // this is much faster than crossfires original algorithm
 // on modern cpus
 inline int
@@ -60,10 +70,20 @@
       ? (dx_ * 61685 + dy_ * 26870) >> 16
       : (dy_ * 61685 + dx_ * 26870) >> 16;
 #else
-  return dx + dy - min (dx, dy) * 5 / 8;
+  return dx_ + dy_ - min (dx_, dy_) * 5 / 8;
 #endif
 }
 
+/*
+ * absdir(int): Returns a number between 1 and 8, which represent
+ * the "absolute" direction of a number (it actually takes care of
+ * "overflow" in previous calculations of a direction).
+ */
+inline int
+absdir (int d)
+{
+  return ((d - 1) & 7) + 1;
+}
 
 // makes dynamically allocated objects zero-initialised
 struct zero_initialised
@@ -173,6 +193,55 @@
   }
 };
 
+// P. L'Ecuyer, “Maximally Equidistributed Combined Tausworthe Generators”, Mathematics of Computation, 65, 213 (1996), 203–213.
+// http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~lecuyer/myftp/papers/tausme.ps
+// http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~lecuyer/myftp/papers/tausme2.ps
+struct tausworthe_random_generator
+{
+  // generator
+  uint32_t state [4];
+
+  void operator =(const tausworthe_random_generator &src)
+  {
+    state [0] = src.state [0];
+    state [1] = src.state [1];
+    state [2] = src.state [2];
+    state [3] = src.state [3];
+  }
+
+  void seed (uint32_t seed);
+  uint32_t next ();
+
+  // uniform distribution
+  uint32_t operator ()(uint32_t r_max)
+  {
+    return is_constant (r_max)
+             ? this->next () % r_max
+             : get_range (r_max);
+  }
+
+  // return a number within (min .. max)
+  int operator () (int r_min, int r_max)
+  {
+    return is_constant (r_min) && is_constant (r_max)
+              ? r_min + (*this) (max (r_max - r_min + 1, 1))
+              : get_range (r_min, r_max);
+  }
+
+  double operator ()()
+  {
+    return this->next () / (double)0xFFFFFFFFU;
+  }
+
+protected:
+  uint32_t get_range (uint32_t r_max);
+  int get_range (int r_min, int r_max);
+};
+
+typedef tausworthe_random_generator rand_gen;
+
+extern rand_gen rndm;
+
 template<class T>
 struct refptr
 {
@@ -299,12 +368,6 @@
   }
 };
 
-template<typename T, typename U> static inline T min (T a, U b) { return a < (T)b ? a : (T)b; }
-template<typename T, typename U> static inline T max (T a, U b) { return a > (T)b ? a : (T)b; }
-template<typename T, typename U, typename V> static inline T clamp (T v, U a, V b) { return v < (T)a ? a : v >(T)b ? b : v; }
-
-template<typename T, typename U> static inline void swap (T& a, U& b) { T t=a; a=(T)b; b=(U)t; }
-
 // basically does what strncpy should do, but appends "..." to strings exceeding length
 void assign (char *dst, const char *src, int maxlen);