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Subject: Re: [boost] [1.48.0] Status?
From: Dave Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-11-08 12:48:10


on Tue Nov 08 2011, Steven Watanabe <watanabesj-AT-gmail.com> wrote:

> AMDG
>
> On 11/08/2011 08:54 AM, John Maddock wrote:
>>> tr1 (most or all compilers)
>>
>> Well I confess I've paid no attention to TR1 because there have been no
>> changes.... however, it appears that the TR1 random number tests are
>> failing on all compilers, for which I suspect a breaking change to
>> Boost.Random. Steven?
>>
>
> It's the seeding algorithm. Seeding
> was a mess before, but apparently in
> cleaning it up I decided differently
> from TR1. (I was just going by the
> standard, which doesn't have floating
> point generators)

So what's the right way to resolve this?

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Dave Abrahams
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