std::mt19937_64::seed() takes a 32-bit (unsigned long) argument

Posted by Microsoft on 3/26/2013 at 12:36 AM

Hi,

Thanks for reporting this bug. I wanted to let you know what's happening with it. I'm still keeping track of it, but it's been resolved as "Deferred" because we may not have time to fix it in VC12. (Note: VC8 = VS 2005, VC9 = VS 2008, VC10 = VS 2010, VC11 = VS 2012.)

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Posted by Microsoft on 2/14/2013 at 7:56 PM

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Posted by Microsoft on 2/14/2013 at 9:54 AM

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Posted by tylerstreeter on 2/14/2013 at 9:21 AM

// Providing a 64-bit seed to the constructor seems to work. This is a workaround
// for some cases (if the seed value is known when the generator is constructed),
// but not if seed() needs to be called after construction.
unsigned long long int x = 5;
std::mt19937_64 gen(x);

std::mt19937_64::seed() takes a 32-bit (unsigned long) argument by tylerstreeter