Make FastRandomContext support standard C++11 RNG interface

This makes it possible to plug it into the various standard C++11 random
distribution algorithms and other functions like std::shuffle.

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/random.h b/src/random.h
index ea88670a37..632ab05883 100644
--- a/src/random.h
+++ b/src/random.h
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@
 #include <uint256.h>
 
 #include <stdint.h>
+#include <limits>
 
 /* Seed OpenSSL PRNG with additional entropy data */
 void RandAddSeed();
@@ -121,6 +122,12 @@ public:
 
     /** Generate a random boolean. */
     bool randbool() { return randbits(1); }
+
+    // Compatibility with the C++11 UniformRandomBitGenerator concept
+    typedef uint64_t result_type;
+    static constexpr uint64_t min() { return 0; }
+    static constexpr uint64_t max() { return std::numeric_limits<uint64_t>::max(); }
+    inline uint64_t operator()() { return rand64(); }
 };
 
 /* Number of random bytes returned by GetOSRand.