Re: [boost] [TR1] std_run_random failure with VC9 SP1

From: Gunther Lenz (g.lenz_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-08-12 14:13:34

There's the same precondition in IBM XL C/C++ V9.0 for AIX too:

[quote from docs at http://tinyurl.com/6xpdtt ]

mersenne_twister::seed

template<class Gen>
    void seed(Gen& gen);
void seed()
    {seed(5489); }
void seed(unsigned long x0);

Precondition: 0 < x0

The first seed function generates N values from the values of type 
unsigned long returned by successive invocations of gen and then twists 
the resulting large integer value. Each value is gen() % 2W.

The second seed function calls seed(4357).

The third seed function sets the oldest historical value h[0] to x0 mod 
2W, then iteratively sets each successive historical value h[i] to (i + 
1812433253 * (h[i - 1] >> (W - 2))) mod 2W, for i ranging from 1 to N - 1.

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regards
Gunther