Hello, Boost folks. I found a bug in subtract_with_carry_engine while fixing a bug in MSVC++'s implementation of the same, where m == numeric_limits::digits. Consider the following: #include #include #ifdef USE_BOOST #include using namespace boost::random; #else #include <random> using namespace std; #endif template <typename Engine> typename Engine::result_type run_10k(Engine engine) { for (int i = 0; i < 9999; ++i) { engine(); } return engine(); } int main() { subtract_with_carry_engine ull_swc; ull_swc.seed(0x12341234'00000000); printf("0x%016llX\n", run_10k(ull_swc)); } MSVC++ said: 0xFCF0A4776BA0A6A8 Libstdc++ says: 0x01316AEA3646F686 Libc++ says: 0x01316AEA3646F686 Boost 1.60.0/libc++ + Clang says: 0x69E18848FE1BD36D Boost 1.60.0/libstdc++ + g++ says: 0x1DD6C263C41EEED0 MSVC++'s bug was that we did the underflow check incorrectly resulting in the carry bit always being set if m == numeric_limits::digits. I fixed that and MSVC++ will agree with libstdc++ and libc++ in the next update; but boost's behavior here is still strange. Hope that helps, Billy Robert O'Neal III SDE II - Visual C++ Libraries bion@microsoft.com