.help           = "disable\tturn off latent entropy instrumentation\n",
 };
 
-static unsigned HOST_WIDE_INT seed;
-/*
- * get_random_seed() (this is a GCC function) generates the seed.
- * This is a simple random generator without any cryptographic security because
- * the entropy doesn't come from here.
- */
+static unsigned HOST_WIDE_INT deterministic_seed;
+static unsigned HOST_WIDE_INT rnd_buf[32];
+static size_t rnd_idx = ARRAY_SIZE(rnd_buf);
+static int urandom_fd = -1;
+
 static unsigned HOST_WIDE_INT get_random_const(void)
 {
-       unsigned int i;
-       unsigned HOST_WIDE_INT ret = 0;
-
-       for (i = 0; i < 8 * sizeof(ret); i++) {
-               ret = (ret << 1) | (seed & 1);
-               seed >>= 1;
-               if (ret & 1)
-                       seed ^= 0xD800000000000000ULL;
+       if (deterministic_seed) {
+               unsigned HOST_WIDE_INT w = deterministic_seed;
+               w ^= w << 13;
+               w ^= w >> 7;
+               w ^= w << 17;
+               deterministic_seed = w;
+               return deterministic_seed;
        }
 
-       return ret;
+       if (urandom_fd < 0) {
+               urandom_fd = open("/dev/urandom", O_RDONLY);
+               gcc_assert(urandom_fd >= 0);
+       }
+       if (rnd_idx >= ARRAY_SIZE(rnd_buf)) {
+               gcc_assert(read(urandom_fd, rnd_buf, sizeof(rnd_buf)) == sizeof(rnd_buf));
+               rnd_idx = 0;
+       }
+       return rnd_buf[rnd_idx++];
 }
 
 static tree tree_get_random_const(tree type)
        tree type, id;
        int quals;
 
-       seed = get_random_seed(false);
-
        if (in_lto_p)
                return;
 
        const struct plugin_argument * const argv = plugin_info->argv;
        int i;
 
+       /*
+        * Call get_random_seed() with noinit=true, so that this returns
+        * 0 in the case where no seed has been passed via -frandom-seed.
+        */
+       deterministic_seed = get_random_seed(true);
+
        static const struct ggc_root_tab gt_ggc_r_gt_latent_entropy[] = {
                {
                        .base = &latent_entropy_decl,