There are three intrinsics returning a hardware-generated random value. These intrinsics are declared in the immintrin.h header file.
These intrinsics are mapped to a single RDRAND instruction. The exception is the intrinsic _rdrand64_step(), which is mapped to two 32-bit RDRAND instructions and several shift and conditional jump/move instructions on 32-bit platforms.
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