Re: [boost] Boost.Uuid and header-only support

Subject: Re: [boost] Boost.Uuid and header-only support
From: James E. King, III (jking_at_[hidden])
Date: 2017-11-06 22:50:02

On Mon, Nov 6, 2017 at 1:05 PM, Peter Dimov via Boost <boost_at_[hidden]
> wrote:

> James E. King, III wrote:
>
> Filling a uuid with random does not require integers.
>> In this case as long as the UniformRandomNumberGenerator produces at
>> least one byte from operator() then it is sufficient to fill the contents
>> of a uuid randomly.
>>
>
> If you just take the lowest 8 bits of the output, it will not be uniformly
> distributed unless min() == 0 and max() == 2^n-1.
>
>
I submitted a pull request so anyone who wants to can take a look.
https://github.com/boostorg/uuid/pull/52

- Jim