Re: [Quantlib-users] Failed test in CVS---Nando and Neil, look at this

[Joseph W. <jo...@co...>]

Actually no.  I'm compiling this out of the box on a Linux
dell laptop using Mandrake cooker and gcc-c++ 3.4. 
I'll look at the random number generator.

BTW, I've uploaded an autogen.sh file onto the sourceforge
patches that automatically does the configure.

Luigi Ballabio wrote:

> At 12:50 03/11/2004, Luigi Ballabio wrote:
>
>> At 23:23 02/11/2004, Joseph Wang wrote:
>>
>>> It's the version in CVS.
>>
>>
>> Joseph,
>>         I'm afraid I can't reproduce the failure.
>
>
> Joseph,
>         I take it back---I serendipitously managed to reproduce it by 
> changing the mti member of the Mersenne Twister generator from static 
> to mutable. Did you do anything of the sort?
>
> Nando, Neil (there's your name on top of the related files: )
> a) where do the test data come from? With what accuracy?
> b) was the internal sequence generator in the McDigitalEngine supposed to
>    interact with the main generator through mti? I sure hope not...
>
> Later,
>         Luigi