There are two issues having to do with VC 8 and VC 8 (and the random library) in the trac database. They are really the same thing, reported for two different versions of the compiler. Can someone with access to Visual Studio check these patches and let me know if they work as advertised? I can apply it/them, if needed. The issues are: <http://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/1423> MSVC uniform int workaround not required for VC++ 2008 and <http://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/1473> VC++ 2009 does not need workaround Thanks! -- -- Marshall Marshall Clow Qualcomm, Inc. <mailto:mclow@qualcomm.com> The famous British scientist, Lord Kelvin, said: "When you measure what you are speaking about and express it in numbers, you know something about it, but when you cannot (or do not) measure it, when you cannot (or do not) express it in numbers, then your knowledge is of a meagre and unsatisfactory kind."