The following code is not constant-time.

#include <stdint.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>

typedef uint32_t (* issue_t)(const uint32_t);

uint32_t issue(const uint32_t a) {
  uint32_t b = 0;
  srand(a);
  while(1) {
    b = rand();
    if(b > 255) break;
  }

  return b;
}

int main(int argc, char * argv[]) {
  uint32_t a = 0;

  // a is our secret value, we read its content from the environment so the
  // compiler cannot play tricks on us by inlining
  if (argc >= 2) {
    a = (uint32_t) strtol(argv[1], NULL, 16);
  }
  else {
    fprintf(stderr, "USAGE: %s hex_value\n", argv[0]);
    return 1;
  }

  // declarations and markup here
  volatile issue_t func = issue;
  printf("%u\n", func(a));

  return 0;
}

See the compilation results with different optimization levels on GodBolt.