Re: [boost] problems with the Random library in Boost v1.47

Subject: Re: [boost] problems with the Random library in Boost v1.47
From: Steven Watanabe (watanabesj_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-07-14 10:47:23

AMDG

On 07/13/2011 11:35 AM, Hongyu Miao wrote:
> Sorry to bother you with this. I met a problem with the Random library in
> the latest release v1.47.  
> 
> <snip>
> 
> However, when I adopted my code to v1.47, the following code failed due to
> memory access violation after a number of function calls:
> 
> double unirand_real(double a, double b)
> {
>     // Create a random number generator engine
>     static boost::random::mt19937 rng_real(static_cast<unsigned
> int>(std::time(0)));
> 
>     // select Uniform probability distribution
>    boost::random::uniform_real_distribution<> dist(a, b);
> 
>    // return random sample
>    return dist(rng_real);
> }
> 
> I will appreciate your help with this problem as right now I think the
> Random library may have a bug.
> 

I can't reproduce this problem with MSVC 2010.

a) What compiler are you using?
b) Can you provide a complete minimal test case
   that fails?

In Christ,
Steven Watanabe