Re: [Boost-users] [Random] compiler issue with Visual Studio

From: John Maddock (john_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-04-22 05:17:48

> I am using Visual Studio 7.1.3008.  While using the Random library, I
> ran into an issue with the seed function of mt19937.  From what I can
> gather, the compiler becomes confused about one of the overloads and
> tries to call the seed function:
>   template<class Generator>
>   void seed(Generator & gen)
>
> I couldn't this issue on the list of known issues for this compiler.
> Is this known.  For now, it appears that the work-around is to cast
> it as an unsigned long.

Yep, it's a bug in the library I believe.  It's not much consolation, but if 
you use the std::tr1:: version in Boost-1.34 when it arrives you won't have 
this problem.

John.