-/* Copyright (c) 2019-2021. The SimGrid Team. All rights reserved. */
+/* Copyright (c) 2019-2022. The SimGrid Team. All rights reserved. */
/* This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
* under the terms of the license (GNU LGPL) which comes with this package. */
int XbtRandom::uniform_int(int min, int max)
{
+ // The casts to unsigned are here to ensure that the value of range is correctly calculated, even when greater than
+ // INT_MAX. See the corresponding unit tests for examples.
unsigned long range = static_cast<unsigned>(max) - static_cast<unsigned>(min);
xbt_assert(min <= max,
"The minimum value for the uniform integer distribution must not be greater than the maximum value");