I discovered some of my project's unit tests failed when I moved from VS 17.4 to 17.5, presumably due to a new version of the STL.

After debugging and looking at the code in this repo, I believe this is due to the change #3012, which substituted a faster algorithm (_Rng_from_urng_v2) for uniform_int_distribution. Is there a recommended way to get the old behaviour? We require repeatable (and cross-platform) random number generation for some things, and although our random generator (PCG) is still producing the same sequence of states after the Visual Studio version update, the remapping to our [lo, hi] integer range using uniform_int_distribution is no longer producing the same sequence of numbers.

You probably don't consider this a bug, since I expect the behaviour of this STL class is allowed to be implementation-defined (as long as it produces a statistically uniform distribution)... My workaround for now is basically to use rng() % (hi - lo + 1) + lo, which does at least produce the same integer sequence we had with VS 17.4 and earlier versions (albeit slower).

Thanks for any suggestions (or should I just avoid using uniform_int_distribution if I want cross-platform repeatability?).