Re: [Boost-users] Problems include the RANDOM LIBRARIES, in a console project, in Windows.

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Problems include the RANDOM LIBRARIES, in a console project, in Windows.
From: Edward Diener (eldiener_at_[hidden])
Date: 2013-07-15 19:22:37

On 7/15/2013 3:48 PM, Alberto Aliberti wrote:
> I used the Random libraries of Boost collection. I have implemented it
> in my program. A program for the chess analysis .  Now, at compile time
> I have no problem. Everything ok, the console project is compiled
> without errors. During run time, the functions of Boost Random
> libraries, correctly generate a random number. But after a few
> repetitions of the loop (from 2/3 to a few tens of loops), the program
> crashes. The strange thing that the crash does not occur in the
> functions where I use the random functions, but occurs in the chess
> engine that does not use these functions, and thus in theory should not
> be influenced by it. But if I do not use the functions of Boost library
> and use the basic function of C + + (rand ();) I have no problems.
> I work in Windows. My project is a console project compiled with VC + +2010.
> Also I have wrote a test program with VC + +2010, which generates a
> sequence of random numbers, using Boost libraries. In this case I have
> no problems. Only when I implement the libraries in the chess program I
> have problems. So it seems that your libraries are in conflict with the
> chess engine. What do you recommend for the search for the cause of the
> problem?

Use the IDE debugger and when the program crashes look at the call stack 
to see where it crashes and why it is happening.