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

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.